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abduction, fallacies to erroneous logical doctrines
(burden of proof, direct cause, ect.)

All this brings us close to Methodentic, or Speculative
Rhetoric. The practical want of a good treatment of this
subject is acute. It is not to be expected that
any general [ductrine?] shall teach men much about methods
of solving problems that re familiar to them. But
in problems a little remote from those which they are
accustomed, it is remarkable hoe, not merely common
minds, but those of very highest order, stumble about
helplessly. No class of thinkers can by anybody.
be rated higher in [beuretic?] genius than the mathema-
ticians; and yet see how they have boggled over comparitively simple [good?]
[lerns?] of unfamiliar kinds, such as [Termatif?]
Theorems, Stainer of theorems, the problem of map-
oloring, the theory of knots.

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