Book II
Inductive Logic, or the Logic of Science.
Introduction, 243
Chapter I.
The Data of Experience as Grounds of Inference or Rational Belief, 273
Chapter II.
Ascertainment of Simple Facts in their Order—Personal Observation—
Hearsay Evidence—Method of Testing Traditional Evidence, 285
Chapter III.
Ascertainment of Facts of Causation.
(1) Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc.
(2) Meaning of Cause—Methods of Observation—Mill's Experimental Methods, 295
Chapter IV.
Method of Observation—Single Difference.
(1) The Principle of Single Difference.
(2) Application of the Principle, 308
Chapter V.
Methods of Observation—Elimination—Single Agreement.
(1) The Principle of Elimination.
(2) The Principle of Single Agreement.
(3) Mill's "Joint Method of Agreement and Difference," 318
Chapter VI.
Methods of Observation—Minor Methods.
(1) Concomitant Variations.
(2) Single Residue, 329
Chapter VII.
The Method of Explanation.
(1) The Four Stages of Orderly Procedure.
(2) Obstacles to Explanation—Plurality of Causes and Intermixture of Effects.
(3) The Proof of a Hypothesis, 334
Chapter VIII.
Supplementary Methods of Investigation.
(1) The Maintenance of Averages—Supplement to the Method of Difference.
(2) The Presumption from Extra-Casual Coincidence, 351
Chapter IX.
Probable Inference to Particulars—The Measurement of Probability, 362
Chapter X.
Inference from Analogy, 367