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Jacki Drevitch

Dr. Brown

Intro to Logic

18 November 2008

Five Canon’s by John Stuart Mills

John Stuart Mills, a popular philosopher of the nineteenth century, dramatically changed the way in which the British processed their thoughts. In his book, “The system of Logic� he discusses his five canons/methods of inductive reasoning; principles developed from gathered information. He used these methods to discover and prove why things happen. His methods are: the method of agreement, the method of difference, the joint method of agreement and difference, the method of residues and the method of concomitant variation.

His method of agreement at large depends on having many instances or occurrences that are different but of those differences having one common factor. For example, a manager at a diner hires a new waitress and every shift she works the cash register ends up significantly short. Later when the paper work is reviewed the manager sees that......

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