The principles of science
- Subtitle
- a treatise on logic and scientific method
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.3. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.4. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.5. CHAPTER II. TERMS.6. CHAPTER III. PROPOSITIONS.7. CHAPTER IV. DEDUCTIVE REASONING.8. CHAPTER V. DISJUNCTIVE PROPOSITIONS.9. CHAPTER VI. THE INDIRECT METHOD OF INFERENCE.10. CHAPTER VII. INDUCTION.11. CHAPTER VIII. PRINCIPLES OF NUMBER.12. CHAPTER IX. THE VARIETY OF NATURE, OR THE DOCTRINE OF COMBINATIONS AND PERMUTATIONS.13. CHAPTER X. THE THEORY OF PROBABILITY.14. CHAPTER XI. PHILOSOPHY OF INDUCTIVE INFERENCE.15. CHAPTER XII. THE INDUCTIVE OR INVERSE APPLICATION OF THE THEORY OF PROBABILITY.16. CHAPTER XIII. THE EXACT MEASUREMENT OF PHENOMENA.17. CHAPTER XIV. UNITS AND STANDARDS OF MEASUREMENT.18. CHAPTER XV. ANALYSIS OF QUANTITATIVE PHENOMENA.19. CHAPTER XVI. THE METHOD OF MEANS.20. CHAPTER XVII. THE LAW OF ERROR.21. CHAPTER XVIII. OBSERVATION.22. CHAPTER XIX. EXPERIMENT.23. CHAPTER XX. METHOD OF VARIATIONS.24. CHAPTER XXI. THEORY OF APPROXIMATION.25. CHAPTER XXII. QUANTITATIVE INDUCTION.26. CHAPTER XXIII. THE USE OF HYPOTHESIS.27. CHAPTER XXIV. EMPIRICAL KNOWLEDGE, EXPLANATION, AND PREDICTION.28. CHAPTER XXV. ACCORDANCE OF QUANTITATIVE THEORIES.29. CHAPTER XXVI. CHARACTER OF THE EXPERIMENTALIST.30. CHAPTER XXVII. GENERALISATION.31. CHAPTER XXVIII. ANALOGY.32. CHAPTER XXIX. EXCEPTIONAL PHENOMENA.33. CHAPTER XXX. CLASSIFICATION.34. CHAPTER XXX. CLASSIFICATION. (continued 2)35. CHAPTER XXXI. REFLECTIONS ON THE RESULTS AND LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD.36. INDEX.