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questions, especially logical questions, never
receiving any serious consideration
at any time. One branch of cenoscopy is
logic, and one branch of logic is methodeutic
which should investigate the general principles
upon which scientific studies should
be carried on. But under the plan of these
philosophers, logic is to be founded upon
the study of all the other sciences. That is to say
you are first to make your researches and
after that inquire how they ought to be
made, locking the barn door after the
horse is already stolen. To be sure, those
philosophers maintain that no sciences
can be reciprocally dependent upon one each