Excerpt from The Principles of Logic
§2. And there came a point where we had to transcend it. In negative inference we were forced to contemplate the possibility of retaining the middle (book II. Part I. V. If, our construction being reached, we choose to rest in it, if we refuse to isolate a single relation within that whole, if we prefer to treat the entire compound synthesis as the conclusion we want, are we logically wrong? Is there any law which orders us to eliminate, and, where we can not eliminate, forbids us to argue? The question once asked is its own reply, and it rings the knell of a blind superstition which vanishes in daylight.
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Excerpt from The Principles of Logic, Vol. 2
§2. And there came a point where we had to transcend it. In negative inference we were forced to contemplate the possibility of retaining the middle (book II. Part I. V. If, our construction being reached, we choose to rest in it, if we refuse to isolate a single relation within that whole, if we prefer to treat the entire compound synthesis as the conclusion we want, are we logically wrong? Is there any law which orders us to eliminate, and, where we can not eliminate, forbids us to argue? The question once asked is its own reply, and it rings the knell of a blind superstition which vanishes in daylight.
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BOOK IlL-PART I
I NFEREN CE-CO NT IN U ED
CHAPTER I
THE ENQUIRY HEOPF.Ntt
§ I. In the Second Part of the foregoing Book we were
concerned with negations. Ve \'ere cmployed in banishing
some views of inference vhich appeared erroneous. From
this negative process we turn with relief, and with the hope of
rest in a positive result. But VC must not deceive ourselves.
The positive result we have already reached, offers a welcome
in part illuslve, and a rest that is doomed to speedy disturhance.
\~e sav in all inference an ideal synthesis, which
tlui tcd round a centre or cent res of identity,1 not less than two
terms into one construction. The conclusion was then a new
relation of these terms, and it was hy an intuition that we
perceived it to exist vithin the individual ,,,·hole we had compacted.
And this account tha.t we gave was not a false account,
for it vas true of those inferences to which we applied
ourselves. nut there are other reasonings no le
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