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matical mind is unsuited to cope with it unaided. It stands in need of logical analysis which Laplace, Boole, and all the rest have failed to supply, but which a mind fitted for and trained in exact logic could bring within the reach of every intelligent man. Mr. Venn would have done so but for his nominalistic obsessions and possibly a deficiency of exact subtilty, in which he has never displayed great power.

The purpose of the second Stage of inquiry is to find experiential consequences of the hypothesis resulting from the first Stage; that is, conditional predictions as to what would necessarily be true in any case in which the hypothesis should be true.