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Quotation from A System of Logic, Book III: Of Induction by John Stuart Mill
“the proposition that the course of nature is uniform, is the fundamental principle, or general axiom of Induction.”
A System of Logic, Book III: Of Induction, Book III, Ch. III, § 1 (8th ed. (New York: Harper, 1882); Project Gutenberg text)
Mill states the warrant of all inference from experience, before arguing that it is itself an induction.
Citation: "the proposition that the course of nature is uniform, is the fundamental principle, or general axiom of Induction." — 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-q2)
Portrait: John Stuart Mill by London Stereoscopic Company, c1870, London Stereoscopic Company, Public domain.
