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to inquire whether the reasoner can deliberately approve of his own conclusion after a careful review of it, and quite another question whether the science of logic can approve of it.
In ethics, it has proved to be an excessively difficult matter to determine upon what principles the publicquestion is to be decided; but in logic do not think there is any such difficulty.
In necessary reasoning, to which we shall confine ourselves at first, the question is simply whether ot not it is possible that in any universe whatsoever in which the premisses are truem there can be any room for the conclusion to be otherwise than true.
If there be, the reasoning is bad if not it is good.
That is the question of what that truth if, not of how we think.

Now let us see what under these circumstances, becomes of the argument