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Logic 33

or assertions. If that be so there must already be a first premiss.
But there is no necessity for supposing that the process of thought as it takes place in the mind is always cut up into distinct arguments. A man goes through a precess of thought.
Who shall say what the nature of that process was?
He cannot for during the process he was occupied with the object about which he was thinking not with himself nor with his motions.
Had he been thinking of these things his current of thought would have been broken up and altogether modified for he must then have after noted from one subject of thought to another.
Shall he endevour after the cource of thought is done to recover it by repeating it on this occasion intercepting it and noting what he had last in mind?
Then it will be extemely likely that he will learn able to interrupt it at times when the movement of thought