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Meaning 2

fact and not a question of thinking. Let A be the fact state of things asserted in the premisses
and C the state of things fact concluded. Then the question of the validity of the inference
is simply wholly included in the question whether these states of things are really so related that if A be
a fact in [???????], C is so likewise , a fact or not. It is not, in the least, the
question whether the acceptance of the premisses inclines impels us to accept the
conclusion, too, or not. True, out brains are so constructed or our minds function in such a way that, like the
logical machines that have been men have invented and constructed they usually do turn out the right
conclusion. But the true conclusion would remains false in those [?????] cases in which
al men for two thousand years have accepted it.

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