Literature/1800s/Mill

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Mill, John Stuart (1843). A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation. John W. Parker.

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Features

In this work, he formulated the five principles of inductive reasoning that are known as Mill's methods.
Extension and Intension
Sense and reference
Causal theory of reference

Quotations

A name is a word taken at pleasure to serve for a mark which may raise in our mind a thought like to some thought we had before, and which being pronounced to others may be to them a sign of what thought the speaker had before in his mind. (p. 27)‎

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