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evident and needs no extraneous support of any kind.
True, I may have commited a blunder, just as I may in adding three to five, and perhaps I may check it by repeating it, although, of course, I have gone through the scrutiny of it very many times; but it needs no different reasoning to support it.
But I shall be asked whether, in endeavoring to correct my logical ideals by reasoning, I do not compare that reasoning with my uncorrected logical ideals.
I beg that you will attend particularly to my reply and observe how I keep to the living, genuine facts of the case.
This is the practise which I call pragmatism.
I do not inquire into matters of which I have no doubt.
No more does anybody else.
They [?st] pretend to they may delude themselves into thinking they [?].
But