Introduction, Chapter 3, Footnote #02
General knowledge & empirical fact
How far this general knowledge is itself acquired by induction of some sort is not, of course, the question. As Mill explains, in the passage referred to in the next note, the economic ``method à priori'' is not a ``mode of philosophizing which does not profess to be founded on experience at all''; but is merely distinguished from the ``method à posteriori'' by not requiring, as the basis of its conclusions, specific experience of economic facts.