Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences
work by Whewell
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influence on Mill
- In John Stuart Mill: Public life and writing of John Stuart Mill
…1837, on reading William Whewell’s Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences and rereading John F.W. Herschel’s Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, Mill at last saw his way clear both to formulating the methods of scientific investigation and to joining the new logic onto the old as a supplement.…
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