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Logic 29
quite overlook the important distinction between thought thst can be controlled and thought which cannot be controlled. It is idle to criticize the later. You cannot criticize what you do not doubt although very many philosophers decieve themselves and others into the belief that they are criticizing what they honestly pretend to doubt and so "argue" for foregone conclusions. A proof or grnuine argument is a mental process which is open to logical criticism. If therefore a philosopher holds that a judgement C has been derived from an antecedent judgement B by a controllable process of thought subject to the minds self-control and that the judgment B has been derived from a still earlier state of mind A by a process of thought not cotrollable he may represent the process by which B has fielded C by a logical form of argument or proof but the other
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