The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method

Name: The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method
Author: William Stanley Jevons

by William Stanley Jevons

Year: 1874
Field: Mathematics
Licence: Public domain (Project Gutenberg, US)
Source: gutenberg
Length: about 291,649 words in 86 sections

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Part 1 · 284 words
THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENCE. · 5 words
THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENCE: · 7 words
BY · W. STANLEY JEVONS, · LL.D. (EDINB.), M.A. (LOND.), F.R.S. · 1 words
MACMILLAN AND CO. 1883. · 20 words
PREFACE · 1,527 words
PREFACE · 6,862 words
CONTENTS. · BOOK I. · FORMAL LOGIC, DEDUCTIVE AND INDUCTIVE. · CHAPTER I. · INTRODUCTION. · SECTION PAGE · 86 words
CHAPTER II. · TERMS. · 44 words
CHAPTER III. · PROPOSITIONS. · 30 words
CHAPTER IV. · DEDUCTIVE REASONING. · 75 words
CHAPTER V. · DISJUNCTIVE PROPOSITIONS. · 48 words
CHAPTER VI. · THE INDIRECT METHOD OF INFERENCE. · 118 words
CHAPTER VII. · INDUCTION. · 80 words
BOOK II. · NUMBER, VARIETY, AND PROBABILITY. · CHAPTER VIII. · PRINCIPLES OF NUMBER. · 57 words
CHAPTER IX. · 61 words
CHAPTER X. · THEORY OF PROBABILITY. · 48 words
CHAPTER XI. · PHILOSOPHY OF INDUCTIVE INFERENCE. · 75 words
CHAPTER XII. · THE INDUCTIVE OR INVERSE APPLICATION OF THE THEORY OF PROBABILITY. · 75 words
BOOK III. · METHODS OF MEASUREMENT. · CHAPTER XIII. · THE EXACT MEASUREMENT OF PHENOMENA. · 89 words
CHAPTER XIV. · UNITS AND STANDARDS OF MEASUREMENT. · 94 words
CHAPTER XV. · ANALYSIS OF QUANTITATIVE PHENOMENA. · 46 words
CHAPTER XVI. · THE METHOD OF MEANS. · 48 words
CHAPTER XVII. · THE LAW OF ERROR. · 85 words
BOOK IV. · INDUCTIVE INVESTIGATION. · CHAPTER XVIII. · OBSERVATION. · 45 words
CHAPTER XIX. · EXPERIMENT. · 51 words
CHAPTER XX. · METHOD OF VARIATIONS. · 47 words
CHAPTER XXI. · THEORY OF APPROXIMATION. · 56 words
CHAPTER XXII. · QUANTITATIVE INDUCTION. · 44 words
CHAPTER XXIII. · THE USE OF HYPOTHESIS. · 40 words
CHAPTER XXIV. · EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE, EXPLANATION AND PREDICTION. · 69 words
CHAPTER XXV. · ACCORDANCE OF QUANTITATIVE THEORIES. · 80 words
CHAPTER XXVI. · CHARACTER OF THE EXPERIMENTALIST. · 47 words
BOOK V. · GENERALISATION, ANALOGY, AND CLASSIFICATION. · CHAPTER XXVII. · GENERALISATION. · 81 words
CHAPTER XXVIII. · ANALOGY. · 36 words
CHAPTER XXIX. · EXCEPTIONAL PHENOMENA. · 49 words
CHAPTER XXX. · CLASSIFICATION. · 124 words
BOOK VI. · CHAPTER XXXI. · REFLECTIONS ON THE RESULTS AND LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD. · 101 words
INDEX 773 · THE PRINCIPLES OF SCIENCE. · CHAPTER I. · INTRODUCTION. · 8,223 words
CHAPTER II. · TERMS. · 4,372 words
CHAPTER III. · PROPOSITIONS. · 4,544 words
CHAPTER IV. · DEDUCTIVE REASONING. · 5,303 words
CHAPTER V. · DISJUNCTIVE PROPOSITIONS. · 4,716 words
CHAPTER VI. · THE INDIRECT METHOD OF INFERENCE. · 4,005 words
THE LOGICAL ALPHABET. · 7,127 words
FIRST MODE. SECOND MODE. THIRD MODE. FOURTH MODE. · 1,707 words
CHAPTER VII. · INDUCTION. · 2,105 words
PROBLEM I. · 9 words
PROBLEM II. · 12 words
PROBLEM III. · 15 words
PROBLEM IV. · 16 words
PROBLEM V. · 36 words
PROBLEM VI. · 45 words
PROBLEM VII. · 15 words
PROBLEM VIII. · 70 words
PROBLEM IX. · 96 words
PROBLEM X. · 9,411 words
BOOK II. · NUMBER, VARIETY, AND PROBABILITY. · CHAPTER VIII. · PRINCIPLES OF NUMBER. · 6,980 words
CHAPTER IX. · 4,056 words
THE ARITHMETICAL TRIANGLE. · 4,492 words
CHAPTER X. · THE THEORY OF PROBABILITY. · 7,886 words
CHAPTER XI. · PHILOSOPHY OF INDUCTIVE INFERENCE. · 7,811 words
CHAPTER XII. · THE INDUCTIVE OR INVERSE APPLICATION OF THE THEORY OF PROBABILITY. · 10,850 words
BOOK III. · METHODS OF MEASUREMENT. · CHAPTER XIII. · THE EXACT MEASUREMENT OF PHENOMENA. · 12,565 words
CHAPTER XIV. · UNITS AND STANDARDS OF MEASUREMENT. · 10,660 words
CHAPTER XV. · ANALYSIS OF QUANTITATIVE PHENOMENA. · 8,016 words
CHAPTER XVI. · THE METHOD OF MEANS. · 6,129 words
CHAPTER XVII. · THE LAW OF ERROR. · 8,903 words
Book IV. · INDUCTIVE INVESTIGATION. · CHAPTER XVIII. · OBSERVATION. · 5,842 words
CHAPTER XIX. · EXPERIMENT. · 8,429 words
CHAPTER XX. · METHOD OF VARIATIONS. · 6,122 words
CHAPTER XXI. · THEORY OF APPROXIMATION. · 9,880 words
CHAPTER XXII. · QUANTITATIVE INDUCTION. · 7,239 words
CHAPTER XXIII. · THE USE OF HYPOTHESIS. · 7,618 words
CHAPTER XXIV. · EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE, EXPLANATION, AND PREDICTION. · 9,180 words
CHAPTER XXV. · ACCORDANCE OF QUANTITATIVE THEORIES. · 8,152 words
CHAPTER XXVI. · CHARACTER OF THE EXPERIMENTALIST. · 7,102 words
BOOK V. · GENERALISATION, ANALOGY, AND CLASSIFICATION. · CHAPTER XXVII. · GENERALISATION. · 11,929 words
CHAPTER XXVIII. · ANALOGY. · 6,023 words
CHAPTER XXIX. · EXCEPTIONAL PHENOMENA. · 10,612 words
CHAPTER XXX. · CLASSIFICATION. · 22,680 words
BOOK VI. · CHAPTER XXXI. · REFLECTIONS ON THE RESULTS AND LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD. · 13,068 words
INDEX. · 6,635 words
LONDON: R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS, · BY THE SAME AUTHOR. · 139 words
MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON. · ELEMENTARY MANUAL OF THE PRINCIPLES OF CURRENCY. · 14 words
HENRY S. KING AND CO. · SPELLING CORRECTIONS · 75 words

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