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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive; Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation; Volume 2
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572 pages, Hardcover
First published March 24, 2011
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John Stuart Mill
1,997 books1,941 followersJohn Stuart Mill, English philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. He was an exponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham, although his conception of it was very different from Bentham's.
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April 6, 2016
Not as good as the first volume, this reads almost like a collection of additional thoughts by the impressive J.S. Mill.
Mill reveals here how close he is to Karl Popper in terms of using probability to determine the applicability of causal connections, only Mill lacks some of the mathematical sophistication with which to decide the limits.
The biggest impressive thought here is how Mill zeros in on the role of language in determining cuts of agency. The construction of what is to be considered and how it is to be considered, validated or verified is a tricky subject matter as including too much or too little of the phenomenon that has a causal connection is difficult to decide, especially if one cannot preform experiments to verify the limits of applicability... although Mill seems to believe that this is possible to do, even something as complex and difficult to suss out like the human mind.
He does believe that there is a singular verifiable view from which to understand agential relations, although he is unable to explain what that view is, or how one should find it given the multitude of differing points of view which would give rise to very different sets of criteria from which to construct causal connections.
Mill reveals here how close he is to Karl Popper in terms of using probability to determine the applicability of causal connections, only Mill lacks some of the mathematical sophistication with which to decide the limits.
The biggest impressive thought here is how Mill zeros in on the role of language in determining cuts of agency. The construction of what is to be considered and how it is to be considered, validated or verified is a tricky subject matter as including too much or too little of the phenomenon that has a causal connection is difficult to decide, especially if one cannot preform experiments to verify the limits of applicability... although Mill seems to believe that this is possible to do, even something as complex and difficult to suss out like the human mind.
He does believe that there is a singular verifiable view from which to understand agential relations, although he is unable to explain what that view is, or how one should find it given the multitude of differing points of view which would give rise to very different sets of criteria from which to construct causal connections.
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