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Chapter XIII. Miscellaneous Examples of the Explanation of Laws of Nature.

§ 1. The general theories of the sciences 529 2. Examples from chemical speculations 531 3. Example from Dr. Brown-Séquard's researches on the nervous system 533 4. Examples of following newly-discovered laws into their complex manifestations 534 5. Examples of empirical generalizations, afterwards confirmed and explained deductively 536 6. Example from mental science 538 7. Tendency of all the sciences to become deductive 539

A SYSTEM OF LOGIC RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVE, VOLUME II. BEING A CONNECTED VIEW OF THE PRINCIPLES OF EVIDENCE AND THE METHODS OF SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION By John Stuart Mill IN TWO VOLUMES SEVENTH EDITION

CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME

BOOK III. ON INDUCTION.—(Continued.)