This text warns against frivolously speculating about the nature of Being due to the double meaning of the verb "to be" by comparing a steam engine and Milo of Crotona. A portion of this book argues that unexplained phenomena are partly the result of chance, and that so-called "residual phenomena" may be discovered if chance is eliminated. Its last section, which largely concerns the social sciences, proposes a "physical" or "concrete" method that is applicable to political economy, but not sociology or history. The second of its six books contains a chapter divided into "five canons" on the four methods of experimental inquiry, such as agreement, elimination and difference. The author's view that the value of names is solely that of its referent is presented in this text. For 10 points, n
This text warns against frivolously speculating about the nature of Being due to the double meaning of the verb "to be" by comparing a steam engine and Milo of Crotona. A portion of this book argues that unexplained phenomena are partly the result of chance, and that so-called "residual phenomena" may be discovered if chance is eliminated. Its last section, which largely concerns the social sciences, proposes a "physical" or "concrete" method that is applicable to political economy, but not sociology or history. The second of its six books contains a chapter divided into "five canons" on the four methods of experimental inquiry, such as agreement, elimination and difference. The author's view that the value of names is solely that of its referent is presented in this text. For 10 points, name this treatise on ratiocinative and inductive methods, which was written by John Stuart Mill.