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G58

they make upon us.

Qualitative Induction consists in the investigator's first
basing upon deducing from the retroductive hypothesis
as great an evidential weight of genuine conditional predictions
as he can conveniently undertake to make and to bring to
the test, the condition under which th he asserts them being that of
the retroductive hypothesis having such degree and kind of
truth as to assure their truth. In calling them "predictions," I do not
mean that they need relate to future events but that they must antecede the investigator's
knowledge of their truth, or at least that they must virtually

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