ABSTRACT
We have now completed our positive account of induction as a method of obtaining truth with certainty, and upon this method we believe the bulk of well-established scientific knowledge to rest. We have still to inquire into the character of those methods which with varying, in some cases with very high degrees of probability, establish results which yet, owing to the peculiarity of their subject-matter, cannot be subjected to the whole of the inductive tests with the completeness which we have hitherto demanded. I treat this branch of the subject here, first, because it completes our account of induction; and, secondly, because it will illustrate by contrast the method of combining inductions which has just been described.
