System of Logic - Couverture rigide

Mill, John Stuart

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0802018750 ISBN 13 : 9780802018755

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 1974

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book makes no pretense of giving to the world a new theory of the intellectual operations. Its claim to attention, if it possess any, is grounded on the fact that it is an attempt, not to supersede, but to embody and systematize, the best ideas which have been either promulgated on its subject by speculative writers, or conformed to by accurate thinkers in their scientific inquiries. To cement together the detached fragments of a subject, never yet treated as a whole; to harmonize the true portions of discordant theories, by supplying the links of thought necessary to connect them, and by disentangling them from the errors with which they are always more or less interwoven, must necessarily require a considerable amount of original speculation. To other originality than this, the present work lays no claim. In the existing state of the cultivation of the sciences, there would be a very strong presumption against any one who should imagine that he had effected a revolution in the theory of the investigation of truth, or added any fundamentally new process to the practice of it. The improvement which remains to be effected in the methods of philosophizing (and the author believes that they have much need of improvement) can only consist in performing more systematically and accurately operations with which, at least in their elementary form, the human intellect, in some one or other of its employments, is already familiar.

Présentation de l'éditeur

John Stuart Mill was a prominent English philosopher and political economist in the 19th century. Mill is considered to be one of the most influential liberal thinkers in history and he was a significant contributor to many fields such as social theory, political theory, and political economy. Mill is also notable for being the first Member of Parliament to argue in favor of women's suffrage. A System of Logic, published in 1843, is a book that details Mill's Methods which comprise of five principles of inductive reasoning. This book also had a major influence on scientists.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0802018750
• ISBN 13: 9780802018755
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais