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CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

BOOK III.
ON INDUCTION. -- (Continued.)
CHAPTER XIV. Of the Limits to the Explanation of Laws of
Nature; and of Hypotheses.
1. CAN all the sequences in nature be resolvable into one law? 3
2. Ultimate laws cannot be less numerous than the distin-
guishable feelings of our nature 		4
3. In what sense ultimate facts can be explained 7
4. The proper use of scientific hypotheses 8
5. Their indispensableness 16
6. Legitimate, how distinguished from illegitimate hypo-
theses 		18
7. Some inquiries apparently hypothetical are really in-
ductive 		25
CHAPTER XV.Of Progressive Effects; and of the Continued
Action of Causes.
1. How a progressive effect results from the simple continu-
ance of the cause 		29
2. -- and from the progressiveness of the cause 33
3. Derivative laws generated from a single ultimate law 36
CHAPTER XVI.Of Empirical Laws.
1. Definition of an empirical law 38
2. Derivative laws commonly depend on collocations 39
3. The collocations of the permanent causes are not reducible
to any law 		41

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Publication Information: Book Title: A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive; Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation. Volume: 2. Contributors: John Stuart Mill - author. Publisher: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1868. Page Number: v.
    
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