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Logic 116

has something to do with it as Ernst Mach practically guesses that it is the fixed stars that jeekp a body moving in a right line at uniform.
He looks about for some circumstance near at hand that may explain it.
How is this marked though excessively imperfect divinatory power of guessing right on the part of the man and on the part of the organic stock to be explained?
Two alternatives only are open.
On the one hand we may say that there is a direct power of Reason to know how Reason will act; and that Nature is ruled by Reasonable Power.
On the other hand we may say that the tendency to guess nearly right is itself the result of a similar experimental procedure.