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When we come to study the third mode of
reasoning we shall have to formulate
the relation of the three kinds of reasoning
in general terms. But for the present it will
not be needful, nor practicable.

Suppose we define Inductive reasoning
as that reasoning whose conclusion is justified not
by there being any necessity of its
being true or approximately true but by its being the
result of a method which if steadily persisted in
must bring the reasoner to the truth of
the matter or must cause his conclusion
in its changes to converge to the truth as its limit.
Adopting this definition, I find