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Birth - Pentonville, Middlesex, United Kingdom
A short video giving a brief description of the Philosopher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7LTNIhxmjg Citation
Essential J.S. Mill: Who was John Stuart Mill? - youtube. (n.d.). Retrieved April 19, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7LTNIhxmjg -
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Employed - East India Company
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System of Logic - Book (1843)
This work encompasses Mills arguments that Observation, followed by the employment of induction were essential in the methods used to acquire knowledge, of course combined with verification. Citation
Mill, John Stuart. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and Methods of Scientific Investigation. J.W. Parker, 1843. -
Arguments within System of Logic (1843)
"The history of science, as Mill sees it, is the history of the growth of our knowledge by inductive reason, but also the growth of our knowledge of inductive reason. As we learn more about the world, induction becomes more and more established, and with this it becomes self-critical and systematic." (Macleod, 2016) Citation
Macleod, Christopher. “John Stuart Mill.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 25 Aug. 2016, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mill/#SharReasPhilScie. -
On Inductive Reason
Mill argued, "We know, in other words, by an act of induction, that inductive generalizations tend to be true, and that induction is therefore a good way of reasoning. Induction is, in this sense, self-supporting." (Mill, 1843) Citation
Mill, John Stuart. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and Methods of Scientific Investigation. J.W. Parker, 1843. -
On Scientific Process
Mill’s insistence that the process of science involves finding the structure already present in nature gives his philosophy a realist orientation.(Macleod, 2016) Citation
Macleod, Christopher. “John Stuart Mill.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Stanford University, 25 Aug. 2016, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mill/#SharReasPhilScie. -
Married - Harriet Taylor
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Death - Avignon, Vaucluse, France