"The first and second editions of the "System of Logic" contained a passage which purported to controvert the views of Archbishop Whately respecting Inductive Syllogism. In the third edition the most controversial portions of this passage are omitted, and additions are made, which materially modify the result. But it is still implied, that "Archbishop Whately's must be held to be the correct account" of no more than "the immediate major-premise in every inductive argument;" and it is still maintained, that "if we throw the whole course of any inductive argument into a series of syllogisms, we shall arrive, by more or fewer steps, at an ultimate syllogism, which will have for its major-premiss the principle, or axiom, of the uniformity of the course of nature;" which principle or axiom is regarded by Mr. Mill as known to us only by "induction.""
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John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (1858) p. 185 footnote; the above includes commentary by Robert Boyd Kidd, "On the supposed contrariety between Archbishop Whately and Mr. Mill respecting Inductive Syllogism" A Delineation of the Primary Principles of Reasoning by Robert Boyd Kidd, Perpetual Curate of Butley, Suffolk (1856)
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