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THIS little work acquires a melancholy interest from the fact that the talented young authoress has not lived to see its publication. The title essay, on “Induction and Deduction,” gained in 1887 the Heslop Memorial Medal, provided out of the proceeds of a bequest to the Mason Science College of Birmingham by the late Dr. Heslop, and awarded annually by the Council of the College. It is clear, concise, well-arranged, and carefully thought out; and leads one to believe that, had the hand of Death been withheld, Miss Naden would have made valuable contributions to philosophic thought. For Miss Naden the fundamental principle in philosophy is the famous Protagorean formula of relativity, that “Man is the measure of all things, of things that are that they are, of things that are not that they are not.” She insists on the close inter-connection of induction and deduction in all reasoning, the two processes not being antagonistic but complementary. Both involve cognition and recognition; but -whereas induction is a process of cognition involving recognitions, deduction is a process of recognition involving cognitions. The historical development is traced from the Greek cosmologists, through Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Descartes and Locke, Mill, Jevons, and J. H. Green; and there are many signs that Miss Naden had not merely grasped but assimilated the teachings of those whose influence on the theory of reasoning she traced.
Induction and Deduction, and other Essays.
Constance C. W. Naden R. Lewins (London: Bickers and Son, 1890.)
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M., C. Our Book Shelf. Nature 42, 245 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042245a0
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