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A System of Logic

Name: A System of Logic
Author: John Stuart Mill

48 chapters, about 158,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 900 words
PREFACE TO THE THIRD AND FOURTH EDITIONS. 400 words
INTRODUCTION. 3,100 words
CHAPTER I. 1,700 words
OF NAMES. 7,900 words
OF THE THINGS DENOTED BY NAMES. 1,500 words
I. FEELINGS, OR STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS. 1,200 words
II. SUBSTANCES. 2,400 words
III. ATTRIBUTES: AND, FIRST, QUALITIES. 900 words
IV. RELATIONS. 1,800 words
V. QUANTITY. 300 words
VI. ATTRIBUTES CONCLUDED. 300 words
VII. GENERAL RESULTS. 600 words
OF PROPOSITIONS. 3,100 words
OF THE IMPORT OF PROPOSITIONS. 6,900 words
OF PROPOSITIONS MERELY VERBAL. 2,600 words
CHAPTER VII. 5,400 words
OF DEFINITION. 7,000 words
FOOTNOTES: 1,400 words
OF INFERENCE, OR REASONING, IN GENERAL. 2,200 words
FOURTH FIGURE. 2,400 words
CHAPTER III. 8,800 words
OF TRAINS OF REASONING, AND DEDUCTIVE SCIENCES. 4,300 words
OF DEMONSTRATION, AND NECESSARY TRUTHS. 8,100 words
THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. 2,900 words
CHAPTER VII. 5,000 words
FOOTNOTES: 5,200 words
PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS ON INDUCTION IN GENERAL. 1,100 words
OF INDUCTIONS IMPROPERLY SO CALLED. 5,900 words
OF THE GROUND OF INDUCTION. 2,500 words
OF LAWS OF NATURE. 2,100 words
OF THE LAW OF UNIVERSAL CAUSATION. 11,500 words
NOTE SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE PRECEDING CHAPTER. 2,500 words
ON THE COMPOSITION OF CAUSES. 2,600 words
OF OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENT. 2,900 words
OF THE FOUR METHODS OF EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY. 1,000 words
FIRST CANON. 300 words
SECOND CANON. 1,800 words
THIRD CANON. 400 words
FOURTH CANON. 1,300 words
FIFTH CANON. 2,300 words
MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES OF THE FOUR METHODS. 10,800 words
CHAPTER X. 7,400 words
OF THE DEDUCTIVE METHOD. 3,500 words
OF THE EXPLANATION OF LAWS OF NATURE. 3,000 words
CHAPTER XIII. 2,800 words
FOOTNOTES: 3,800 words
END OF VOL. I. 400 words

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