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ON
THE PHILOSOPHY OF DISCOVERY.
CONTENTS.
The chapters marked thus appear now for the first time. The chapters marked thus † have appeared in other works.
3. The notion of the nature and aim of Science.
5. Aristotle's contribution to the Physical Sciences.
6. Aristotle's Astronomy.
7. Aristotle on Classification.
8. F. Bacon on Aristotle.
9. Discovery of Causes.
CHAP. IX. THE SCHOOLMEN OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
CHAP. X. THE INNOVATORS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
Raymond Lully.
CHAP. XI. THE INNOVATORS OF THE MIDDLE AGES-
continued.
Roger Bacon.
CHAP. XII. THE REVIVAL OF PLATONISM.
I.
2.
Causes of Delay in the Advance of Knowledge.
Causes of Progress.
3. Hermolaus Barbarus, &c.
4. Nicolaus Cusanus.
5. Manilius Ficinus.
6. Francis Patricius.
7. Picus, Agrippa, &c.
8. Paracelsus, Fludd, &c.
CHAP. XIII. THE THEORETICAL REFORMERS OF SCIENCE.
CHAP. XIV. THE PRACTICAL REFORMERS OF SCIENCE.
I. Character of the Practical Reformers,
2. Leonardo da Vinci.
3. Copernicus.
4. Fabricius.
5. Maurolycus.
6. Benedetti.
7. Gilbert.
10. (IV.) He contrasts the Old and the New Method.
11. (V.) Has he neglected Ideas?
CHAP. XIX. LOCKE AND HIS FRENCH FOLLOWERS.
CHAP. XXII. MR. MILL'S LOGIC.
(I.) What is Induction? §§ 1-14.
(II.) Induction or Description, §§ 15—23.
(III.) In Discovery a new Conception is introduced,
SS 24-37.
(IV.) Mr. Mill's Four Methods of Inquiry, §§ 38
-40.
(V.) His Examples, §§ 41-48.
(VI.) Mr. Mill against Hypotheses, §§ 49, 50.
(VII.) Against prediction of Facts, §§ 51-53.
(VIII.) Newton's Vera Causa, §§ 54, 55.
(IX.) Successive Generalizations, §§ 56—62.
(X.) Mr. Mill's Hope from Deductions, §§ 63—67.
(XI.) Fundamental opposition of our Doctrines, §§ 68
-71.
(XII.) Absurdities in Mr. Mill's Logic, §§ 72-74.