A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive¶
Mill, J. S. (1843). A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation.
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Primes¶
- Comparative Method
- The method's logical structure — that variation across cases constrains causal inference in the absence of experimental control — was subsequently formalized in John Stuart Mill's A System of Logic (1843), where Mill codified the methods of agreement, difference, residues, and concomitant variation as the canonical comparative procedures for causal reasoning in observational domains.
This sourceCodifies the methods of agreement, difference, residues, and concomitant variation — the canonical comparative procedures for causal reasoning in observational domains; supports the claim that Mill formalized the logical structure of the comparative method. (Citation-fix: the prior annotation framed the methods as underlying uniformitarian reasoning, a leftover; the book supports the methods-of-induction claim attributed to it.)
- The method's logical structure — that variation across cases constrains causal inference in the absence of experimental control — was subsequently formalized in John Stuart Mill's A System of Logic (1843), where Mill codified the methods of agreement, difference, residues, and concomitant variation as the canonical comparative procedures for causal reasoning in observational domains.
- Emergence
- Irreducibility: descriptive and explanatory
This sourceJohn W. Parker. Introduces 'heteropathic' laws/effects (chemical-mode causation where the joint effect is not the sum of components) — the founding statement of British emergentism — supporting marker 055's descriptive/explanatory-irreducibility point that thermal phenomena obey their own laws. (Prime's annotation about 'methods of induction / uniformitarian reasoning' was a leftover from another prime; corrected.)
- Irreducibility: descriptive and explanatory
- Inductive Reasoning
- Mill's systematic methods of induction
This sourceJohn W. Parker. Develops the canonical "methods of induction" (agreement, difference, residues, concomitant variation) by which present-observed regularities license inferences about unobserved cases — the logical structure that underlies uniformitarian reasoning in historical sciences.
- Mill's systematic methods of induction
- Uniformitarianism
- The assumption is pragmatic: without some bridging assumption, inference about unobservable past is impossible; uniformitarianism is the default bridging assumption in empirical historical sciences, paralleling Mill's (1843) methods of induction by which present-observed regularities license inferences beyond direct observation.
This sourceJohn W. Parker. Develops the canonical "methods of induction" (agreement, difference, residues, concomitant variation) by which present-observed regularities license inferences about unobserved cases — the logical structure that underlies uniformitarian reasoning in historical sciences.
- The assumption is pragmatic: without some bridging assumption, inference about unobservable past is impossible; uniformitarianism is the default bridging assumption in empirical historical sciences, paralleling Mill's (1843) methods of induction by which present-observed regularities license inferences beyond direct observation.
Mechanisms¶
- Comparative-Case Attribution Test
- Select cases that vary one axis. Similar structure with a different actor (Mill's Method of Difference), or similar actor-type under a different structure, so the varying factor is the suspected cause.
This sourceDefines the Method of Difference as comparing cases alike in every circumstance but one and treating the differing circumstance as causal or necessary.
- Select cases that vary one axis. Similar structure with a different actor (Mill's Method of Difference), or similar actor-type under a different structure, so the varying factor is the suspected cause.
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