Book III: Of Induction

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Book III: Of Induction is the section of John Stuart Mill’s *A System of Logic* that systematically develops his influential account of inductive reasoning and the methods of experimental inquiry.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book section → philosophical text →
aimsTo	analyze causal inference → systematize inductive reasoning →
author	John Stuart Mill →
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom →
describes	canons of inductive inference →
discusses	causation → empirical generalization → laws of nature → probability in inductive reasoning →
field	epistemology → logic → philosophy of science →
followedBy	Book IV of A System of Logic →
genre	logic treatise → non-fiction → philosophy →
hasInfluentialConcept	Mill’s methods →
hasPart	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 →
hasReception	considered a classic account of induction →
historicalContext	19th-century British philosophy →
influenced	empiricist accounts of knowledge → philosophy of science in the 19th century → theory of scientific method →
language	English →
mainTopic	experimental inquiry → induction → inductive reasoning → scientific method →
partOf	A System of Logic →
philosophicalTradition	British empiricism →
positionInWork	Book III of A System of Logic →
precededBy	Book II of A System of Logic →
publicationYear	1843 →
publishedIn	A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive →
relatedConcept	causal laws → empirical method → inductive logic →
relatedWork	An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy →
usedIn	teaching of logic → teaching of philosophy of science →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
A System of Logic →	hasPart
Book IV: Of Operations Subsidiary to Induction →	relatedWork