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Logic 73 Reasoning by Machinery

we know or care be a hundred ways of thinking in passing form such a premiss to such a conclusion.
But the question is whether granting that there be such a thing as truth which can be ascertained at all such a way of adding conclusion to premiss as that under examination would lead to the ascertainment of the truth by the speediest path or not.
The whole logical inquiry relates to the truth now the idea of truth is that it is quite independent of what you or I may think it to be.
How we think therefore is utterly irrelevant to logical inquiry.
I must be excused for dwelling on this point for no other logic thought it is a science of subtleties is so hard to see.
The confusion is embedded in language leaving no words avaliable to epigrammatize the error.
Now it is not of fools exclusively but of the greater part of the thinking world that words are the many.
A celebrated treatise is entitled "Logic, or Computation"