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To be sure, it is incorrect to say, as they do, if this be their meaning, that the reasoning "rests" upon this satisfaction.
For it rests on its premisses and, if they will have it so, upon the logical ideal, and the satisfaction is merely perception that it does so.
But the reasoning is once followed by an act by which we impress the conclusion upon our natures as an efficient belief; and this act would not be performed if it were not for the satisfaction and therefore there in no great harm in saying that the reasoning is based on the satisfaction.
Not the reasoning exactly but the passing of the conclusion into the state of belief really is so.

Still amend as we may the conclusion of the defendent argument by no means follows in the least.
Everybody knows that there are