[Rarebooks] MILL'S Logic (5th edition)

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John Stuart Mill, A SYSTEM OF LOGIC, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Parker, Son 
and Bourn, West Strand, London, 1862. FIFTH EDITION. 

$300.

Volume 1: TP + [iii]-xvi + [1]-536 + [1]-4 = Publisher's Advertisements; 
Volume 2: TP + [iii]-xii + half-title + [3]-550 +1 leaf = By the Same Author, 
Octavo. 

Original dark teal boards with almost perfectly preserved paper spine labels 
(some chipping - especially to volume one - but no loss to text). One 
signature slightly sprung but overall a lovely set. 

This is the fifth edition of Mill's brilliant first book wherein he makes his 
"first major installment of his comprehensive restatement of an empiricist 
and utilitarian position." (Encylopedia of Philosophy, Vol. 5, p. 315) The book 
"had a rapid success, beyond the expectations of its author, and was for many 
years the standard authority with all who took his side in the main 
philosophical questions. Mill, in fact, was recognized as the great leader of the 
empirical school... few men have had a more marked influence upon the rising 
intellect of the time." (DNB) 

No accurate and comprehensive summary of the book's salient and important 
points is really possible in so small a space as offered here. The Encyclopedia 
of Philosophy gives two and a half full pages of exposition to this work and 
then devotes another nine pages to an article entitled: "Mill's Methods of 
Induction". In short, despite over two thousand years of philosophical 
consideration of logic based on deduction, Mill abandons deduction and attempts and 
accomplishes an analysis and proof for logic based on the principles of induction 
working soley from the human experiences of sensation - an incredible tour de 
force by one of the leading intellects of the English people. (This fifth 
edition contains many corrections and additions that Mill made to the book.)

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