LOGIC JEVONS WILLIAM STANLEY The Substitution of Similars

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JEVONS, WILLIAM STANLEY. The Substitution of Similars, The True Principle of Reasoning, derived from a Modification of Aristotle's Dictum. viii, 86, [2] pages, including frontispiece depicting Jevons's logical abacus, and final leaf with printer's imprint. Publisher's 32-page catalogue dated February 1875 bound at end * Studies in Deductive Logic. xxviii, 304 pages, including half-title and frontispiece showing ancient logical diagrams. Publisher's undated 36-page catalogue bound at end. Together, 2 volumes. 8vo, 162x114mm and 188x126 mm, original cloth, spine of the first volume darkened with ends worn; contents of both generally clean. London: Macmillan and Co., 1869 [i. e., 1875]; 1880

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"Jevons' logic of inference was dominated by what he called the substitution of similars, which expressed 'the capacity of mutual replacement existing in any two objects which are like or equivalent to a sufficient degree.' This became fro him 'the great and universal principle of reasoning' from which 'all logical processes seem to arrange themselves in simple and luminous order' "--DSB VII, 105.