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. 1806–73. The son of James Mill (1773–1836), who was a philosopher of somewhat similar tendencies, Mill was born in London where he worked in the India office. He is noted as an EMPIRICIST and early PHENOMENALIST, and in ethics as a (somewhat wayward) UTILITARIAN and defender of liberty. He also wrote on political philosophy. His logic is largely remembered for his distinction between connotation and denotation (see MEANING), his criticism of the SYLLOGISM, his elaboration of a philosophy of science along the lines of Bacon’s and his empiricist treatment of basic MATHEMATICAL propositions. His approach was of the general type now called extensionalist.
A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, 1843. On Liberty, 1859. On Representative Government, 1861. Utilitarianism, 1863. An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy, 1865 (contains his phenomenalist views). See also BRADLEY, DEFINITION, INDUCTION, INFERENCE, MEANING, PLEASURE, RUSSELL, SELF-REGARDING, WHEWELL.
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