ABSTRACT
Mill’s importance as one of the major figures of nineteenth-century politics and culture, and the current interest in him as a moral and political philosopher, are both so great that they make it hard to see him in another aspect-as a leading contributor to the British tradition of epistemology and metaphysics. Yet it was the System of Logic (1843) that first established his reputation; and his views in this field remain as interesting and relevant as his better known views in ethics and politics.
