THE

PHILOSOPHY

OF THE

INDUCTIVE SCIENCES,

pest-

FOUNDED UPON THEIR HISTORY.

BY THE

REV. WILLIAM WHEWELL, B.D.,

FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY
OF CAMBRIDGE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

OF LONDON.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

Λαμπάδια ἔχοντες διαδώσουσιν ἀλλήλοις.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

LONDON:

JOHN W. PARKER, WEST STRAND.
CAMBRIDGE: J. AND J. J. DEIGHTON.

M.DCCC.XL.

LONDON: HARRISON AND CO., PRINTERS,

ST. MARTIN'S LANE.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE INDUCTIVE SCIENCES.

PART I.-OF IDEAS, continued.

BOOK IX. THE PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY.

CHAP. 1. Analogy of Biology with other Sciences.

2. Successive Biological Hypotheses

3. Attempts to Analyze the Idea of Life

4. Attempts to form Ideas of Separate Vital Forces; and

first, of Assimilation and Secretion

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5. Attempts to form Ideas of Separate Vital Forces, con-

tinued Voluntary Motion

6. Of the Idea of Final Causes

BOOK X.-THE PHILOSOPHY OF PALETIOLOGY.

CHAP. 1. Of Palætiological Sciences in general

2. Of the Three Members of a Palætiological Science

3. Of the Doctrine of Catastrophes and the Doctrine of

Uniformity

4. Of the Relation of Tradition to Palætiology

PART II.—OF KNOWLEDGE.

BOOK XI.-OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCIENCE.

CHAP. 1. Of two principal Processes by which Science is

Constructed.

2. Of the Explication of Conceptions

3. Of Facts as the Materials of Science

4. Of the Colligation of Facts

5. Of certain Characteristics of Scientific Induction

6. Of the Logic of Induction.

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CHAP. 7. Of Laws of Phenomena and of Causes

8. Of Art and Science

9. Of the Classification of Sciences

CHAP. 1. Introduction

2. Plato

3. Aristotle

4. The Later Greeks

5. The Romans

6. The Schoolmen of the Middle Ages

7. The Innovators of the Middle Ages

8. The Revival of Platonism

9. The Theoretical Reformers of Science

10. The Practical Reformers of Science

11. Francis Bacon

12. From Bacon to Newton

13. Newton

14. Locke and his French Followers

15. The Reaction against the Sensational School

BOOK XII.-REVIEW OF OPINIONS ON THE Nature of Knowledge,

AND THE MEANS OF SEEKING IT.

BOOK XIII.-OF METHODS EMPLOYED IN THE FORMATION OF

SCIENCE.

CHAP. 1. Introduction

2. Of Methods of Observation

3. Of Methods of Acquiring clear Scientific Ideas, and

first, of Intellectual Education

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4. Of Methods of Acquiring clear Scientific Ideas, con-

tinued. Of the Discussion of Ideas

5. Analysis of the Process of Induction

6. General Rules for the Construction of the Conception

7. Special Methods of Induction applicable to Quantity.

8. Methods of Induction depending on Resemblance

9. Of the Application of Inductive Truths

10. Of the Induction of Causes

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