... most solid ethical sentiment. Mill attempted to give an account of the methods of science and their applicability to social and natural phenomena as well as methods of logic. Mill's conception of logic was not entirely that of modern logicians; besides formal logic, what he called "the logic of consistency", he thought that there was logic of proof, that is, a logic that would show how ... tended to prove the conclusions we draw from the evidence. That led him to the analysis of causation, and to an account of inductive reasoning that remains the starting point of most modern discussions...

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