A System of Logic

A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive is an 1843 book by English philosopher John Stuart Mill. In this work, he formulated the five principles of inductive reasoning that are known as Mill's Methods. This work is important in the philosophy of science, and more generally, insofar as it outlines the empirical principles Mill would use to justify his moral and political philosophies. An article in "Philosophy of Recent Times" has described this book as an "attempt to expound a psychological system of logic within empiricist principles.”

This work was important to the history of science, being a strong influence on scientists such as Dirac.

Mill revised the original work several times over the course of thirty years in response to critiques and commentary by Whewell, Bain, and others.

References

• Mill, John Stuart, A System of Logic, University Press of the Pacific, Honolulu, 2002, ISBN 1-4102-0252-6
• Philosophy of Recent Times, ed. J. B. Hartmann (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967), I, 14.

External links

Online editions

• 1843. Google Books: Vol. I, Vol. II (first edition)
• 1846. Google Books: All
• 1851. Google Books: Vol. I, Vol. II missing? Internet Archive: Vol. I, Vol. II missing? (third edition)
• 1858. Google Books: All
• 1862. Google Books: Vol. I, Vol. II
• 1868. Internet Archive: Vol. I, Vol. II. Also Vol. I, Vol. II. Also Vol. I (seventh edition)
• 1872. Internet Archive: Vol. I, Vol. II. Also partial HTML version.(eighth edition)
• 1882. Internet Archive: All
• 1882. Project Gutenberg: All
• 1974 (comparative edition). Robson, J. M., ed. (1963–1991), Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Appeared in Vol. 7, and Vol. 8 of the series.