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INDUCTION, DEDUCTION, AND JAMES MILL'S “GOVERNMENT”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2015

ANTIS LOIZIDES
ANTIS LOIZIDES*
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In his biography of James Mill, Alexander Bain made a number of claims with regard to Mill's essay “Government” (1820). First, the essay was a catalyst in the movement for reform, making “in all probability . . . our political history very different from what it might otherwise have been.” Second, the essay provided a unique opportunity for Mill to expound on “the whole theory of Government in a compact shape.” Third, as far as his “Logic of Politics” was concerned, Mill depended on the deductive method—the method of geometry—having quickly discarded the applicability of inductive logic in politics. In this article, I take issue with the last claim.

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Modern Intellectual History , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , April 2018 , pp. 33 - 61
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