The Sources of Mill’s View of Ratiocination and Induction

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In Mill’s A System of Logic: Critical Appraisals. Rutledge (2014)
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The philosophical background important to Mill’s theory of induction has two major components: Richard Whately’s introduction of the uniformity principle into inductive inference and the loss of the idea of formal cause.

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Steffen Ducheyne
University of Ghent
John P. McCaskey
Fordham University

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Mill on logic.David Godden - 2016 - In Christopher Macleod & Dale E. Miller (eds.), A Companion to Mill. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. pp. 175-191.

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