This is the first of two volumes of John Stuart Mill’s A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, his major treatise on the principles of reasoning and scientific inquiry. The opening volume lays the groundwork, examining names and propositions, the nature of reasoning and the syllogism, and beginning his influential treatment of induction.
This free EPUB edition has been carefully cleaned and formatted for modern e-readers. A foundational work of empiricist philosophy and the philosophy of science, Mill’s System of Logic profoundly shaped nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinking about knowledge, causation, and method.