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distinction, though Real, is somewhat indefinite. (All distinctions are so in the last analysis, including that between the definite and the indefinite.) The purpose of the second stage of inquiry is to find experiential consequents of the hypothesis, that is conditional predictions as to what would necessarily be observable, if the hypothesis should be true, and under recognizable conditions capable of being found or brought about. A store of such having been provided, the third, and last, Stage of inquiry is entered upon