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Quotation from A System of Logic, Book III: Of Induction by John Stuart Mill
“It is not from the past to the future, as past and future, that we infer, but from the known to the unknown; from facts observed to facts unobserved”
A System of Logic, Book III: Of Induction, Book III, Ch. III, § 1 (8th ed. (New York: Harper, 1882); Project Gutenberg text)
Mill rejects the description of induction as an intuitive conviction that the future will resemble the past.
Citation: "It is not from the past to the future, as past and future, that we infer, but from the known to the unknown; from facts observed to facts unobserved" — John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Book III: Of Induction, Book III, Ch. III, § 1 (8th ed. (New York: Harper, 1882); Project Gutenberg text). (id mill-system-of-logic-book-iii-q1)
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