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Logic 36

hypothesis.
Adopting that idea the logical argument only represents the last past of thought for the reason that it supposes a premiss which represents some attitude of thought which can only have resulted from thinking.
Now if you only break off the last part of time you leave a previous time.
If you break off the last part of this you still leave a previous time and there is no possibility of your breaking off so many last pieces that from what remains no last piece can be broken off.
Hence there is no necessity for a series of arguments representing a course of thought to have a first argument before which there was no argument in the thought in the only sense in which there waa any argument at all in the process of thinking. For there is no fact in our possession to forbid our supposing that the thinking