Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- PREFACE
- Aphorisms respecting Ideas
- Aphorisms respecting Knowledge
- Aphorisms respecting the Language of Science
- PART I OF IDEAS
- BOOK I OF IDEAS IN GENERAL
- BOOK II THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE PURE SCIENCES
- BOOK III THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MECHANICAL SCIENCES
- BOOK IV THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SECONDARY MECHANICAL SCIENCES
- BOOK V THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MECHANICO-CHEMICAL SCIENCES
- BOOK VI THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY
- BOOK VII THE PHILOSOPHY OF MORPHOLOGY, INCLUDING CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
- BOOK VIII PHILOSOPHY OF THE CLASSIFICATORY SCIENCES
- CHAP. 1 Of the Idea of Likeness as governing the use of Common Names
- CHAP. 2 Of the Methods of Natural History as regulated by the Idea of Likeness
- CHAP. 3 Application of the Natural History Method to Mineralogy
CHAP. 1 - Of the Idea of Likeness as governing the use of Common Names
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- PREFACE
- Aphorisms respecting Ideas
- Aphorisms respecting Knowledge
- Aphorisms respecting the Language of Science
- PART I OF IDEAS
- BOOK I OF IDEAS IN GENERAL
- BOOK II THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE PURE SCIENCES
- BOOK III THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MECHANICAL SCIENCES
- BOOK IV THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SECONDARY MECHANICAL SCIENCES
- BOOK V THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MECHANICO-CHEMICAL SCIENCES
- BOOK VI THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHEMISTRY
- BOOK VII THE PHILOSOPHY OF MORPHOLOGY, INCLUDING CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
- BOOK VIII PHILOSOPHY OF THE CLASSIFICATORY SCIENCES
- CHAP. 1 Of the Idea of Likeness as governing the use of Common Names
- CHAP. 2 Of the Methods of Natural History as regulated by the Idea of Likeness
- CHAP. 3 Application of the Natural History Method to Mineralogy
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- The Philosophy of the Inductive SciencesFounded upon their History, pp. 449 - 462Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014