A System of Logic

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book philosophical treatise work on logic

A System of Logic is John Stuart Mill’s influential 1843 philosophical treatise that systematically develops inductive logic and the empirical foundations of scientific reasoning.

Aliases (7)

A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive ×3
Book III of A System of Logic ×1
Book IV of A System of Logic ×1
Book I–VI of A System of Logic ×1
Mill’s methods ×1
Mill’s methods of experimental inquiry ×1
Volume I of A System of Logic ×1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book → philosophical treatise → work on logic →
addresses	deductive reasoning → inductive reasoning → logic of the moral sciences → nature of causation → role of experience in knowledge →
author	John Stuart Mill →
centralConcept	Mill’s methods of experimental inquiry → joint method of agreement and difference → method of agreement → method of concomitant variations → method of difference → method of residues →
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom →
firstEditionVolumes	2 →
genre	epistemology → logic → philosophy →
hasPart	Book I: Of Names and Propositions → Book II: Of Reasoning → Book III: Of Induction → Book IV: Of Operations Subsidiary to Induction → Book V: On Fallacies → Book VI: On the Logic of the Moral Sciences →
historicalSignificance	major 19th-century work on logic and scientific method →
influenced	John Maynard Keynes → logical empiricism → methodology of the social sciences → philosophy of science in the 19th century →
influencedBy	British empiricism → David Hume → Francis Bacon →
language	English →
notableFor	analysis of scientific reasoning → systematic development of inductive logic →
originalTitle	A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive →
philosophicalStance	anti-innatism → empiricism →
placeOfPublication	London →
publicationYear	1843 →
publisher	John W. Parker →
subject	empiricism → inductive logic → philosophy of science → scientific method → theory of knowledge →
subtitle	Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation →
title	A System of Logic →

Referenced by (21)

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Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation → Book I: Of Names and Propositions → Book II: Of Reasoning → Book III: Of Induction →	partOf
John Stuart Mill → John Stuart Mill → John Stuart Mill →	notableWork
Book I: Of Names and Propositions → Three Essays on Religion →	relatedWork
A System of Logic ("Mill’s methods of experimental inquiry") →	centralConcept
Book I: Of Names and Propositions ("Volume I of A System of Logic") →	containedIn
Book III: Of Induction ("Book IV of A System of Logic") →	followedBy
Book III: Of Induction ("Mill’s methods") →	hasInfluentialConcept
Book II: Of Reasoning ("A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive") →	includedInWork
Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation →	isFullSubtitleOf
Book I: Of Names and Propositions →	isOpeningSectionOf
A System of Logic ("A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive") →	originalTitle
Book II: Of Reasoning ("Book I–VI of A System of Logic") →	partOfSeries
Book III: Of Induction ("Book III of A System of Logic") →	positionInWork
Book III: Of Induction ("A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive") →	publishedIn
A System of Logic →	title