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O.55
the simpler Qualitative kind for present purposes. In this, the inquirer, having deduced from the hypothesis as many independent consequences of ascertainable truth as he can, experimentally ascertains the truth of each, and judges by the result how near to the truth the hypothesis is. Unless it be of such a nature that it must be either utterly false or entirely true, (in which rare case the appeal must be to Sentential Reasoning) he will not be justified in concluding more than that it is, at least, very like the truth, even should all the consequences drawn be as perfectly fulfilled as possible. For these are, after all, but a mere sample of all that might be deduced from the hypothesis and
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