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1909 Nov 3
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SIGNIFICS & LOGIC
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sense I just assigned to this word. In Germany and in America
It is often used in other senses, in consequence, I suppose, of the
opinion often expressed in books in which is is taken in those
other senses, that the theory of reasoning was perfected by Aristotle,
or by [Apelt?](!), or by some unspecified writers. This notion is as
false as possible. In Germany, false views of reasoning are still so
general and so important as to lead to strengths being attributed to
many arguments which they do not approach near come near to
having, while on the other hand obvious arguments of great weight are
entirely overlooked from the same cause. The logic of relations, which
strikes so deep as to put quite another face upon deductive reasonsing, has
been really studied but by a very small group, and even by them
often with little suspicion of its true significance. The Doctrine of Chances,