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cedure diligently persisted in must, in every concievable universe in which it leads to any result at all, lead to a result indefinitely approximating to the truth.
When that is the case, we shall do right to pursue that method, provided we recognise its true character, since our relation to the universe does not permit us to have any necessary knowledge of positive facts.
You will observe that in such a case our ideal is shaped by the consideration of our situation relatively to the universe of existences.
There are still other operations of the mind to which the name "reasoning" is especially appropriate, although it is not the prevailing habit of speech to call them so.
They are conjectures, but rational conjectures; and the justification of them