“I shall endeavor to show that induction is really the inverse process of deduction.”

Source: The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method (1874) Vol. 1, p. 14

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English economist and logician 1835–1882

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Source: The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method (1874) Vol. 1, p. 14