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more exactly, enough of them hold to this opinion to set the
fashion for the others. Fasion is everything among
German philosophers, for the simple reason that the
professers livlihood depends on his lectures being in
the favored vogue. The fallacious argument itself
[runs?] thus:

Every reasoning takes place in some
mind. It would not be that mind's reasoning
unless it satisfied that mind's feeling of logi-
cality ([logisches Gefiihl?]). But as long as it does
that, nothing can be gained by criticizing the
reasoning any further, since there is no other
possible sign by which we could know that it was good
than that feeling of logicality in the reasoner's
mind. For if the reasoning be criticized, that
criticism must be conducted by reasoning;
and that reasoning, in its turn, must either
be accepted because it satified the reasoner's
feeling of logicality, or else be criticized by

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