INDUCTIVE LOGIC, OR THE LOGIC OF SCIENCE.

Introduction,

[Chapter I.]

The Data of Experience as Grounds of Inference or Rational Belief,

[Chapter II.]

Ascertainment of Simple Facts in their Order—Personal Observation—
Hearsay Evidence—Method of Testing Traditional Evidence,

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[Chapter III.]

Ascertainment of Facts of Causation.
(1) Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc.
(2) Meaning of Cause—Methods of Observation—Mill's Experimental Methods,

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[Chapter IV.]

Method of Observation—Single Difference.
(1) The Principle of Single Difference.
(2) Application of the Principle,

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[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,"

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[Chapter VI.]

Methods of Observation—Minor Methods.
(1) Concomitant Variations.
(2) Single Residue,

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[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,

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[Chapter VIII.]

Supplementary Methods of Investigation.
(1) The Maintenance of Averages—Supplement to the Method of Difference.
(2) The Presumption from Extra-Casual Coincidence,

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[Chapter IX.]

Probable Inference to Particulars—The Measurement of Probability,

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[Chapter X.]

Inference from Analogy,

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