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any regard to the manner in which the instances have been collected.

I will now sketch one or more ways of refuting each of Mill's three professed theories of Induction.

To the first theory, that an Induction is equivalent to a syllogism whose major premise is the axiom of the uniformity of nature, while its minor premiss states the observed facts about the instances, the conclusion being identical with that of the induction, each of the following objections is conclusive: first, that an induction, unlike a