Full Idea
What are the fewest general propositions from which all the uniformities which exist in the universe might be deductively inferred?
Gist of Idea
What are the fewest propositions from which all natural uniformities could be inferred?
Source
John Stuart Mill (System of Logic [1843], 3.4.1)
Book Reference
Mill,John Stuart: 'System of Logic (9th ed, 2 vols)' [Longmans, Green etc 1875], p.366
A Reaction
This is the germ of the Mill-Ramsey-Lewis view.