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perhaps a little more deliberate than he has hitherto given to these Pre-logical Ideas in order to see how far they are well grounded and in order to develope them perhaps a little more and penetrate to their real significance as far as this can be done at this stage of inquiry.

Some mathematicians eminent for their success in their science and who have particularly attended to the philosophy of it regard Mathematics as a branch of Logic.
This is the more worthy of notice because it might with much justice be contended that mathematics is almost if not quite the only science which stands in need of no aid from a science of logic.
Moreover according to the opinion defended in the present treatise logical truth is grounded upon a sort of observation of the same kind as that upon which mathematics

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perhaps a little more deliberate than he has hitherto given to these Pre-logical Ideas in order to see how far they are well grounded and in order to develope them perhaps a little more and penetrate to their real significance as far as this can be done at this stage of inquiry.