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This great fallacy once overthrown which governs more or less the German logics, what does right reasoning consist in?
It consists in such reasoning as shall be conducive to our ultimate aim.
What then is our ultimate aim?
Perhaps it is not necessary that the logician should answer this question.
Perhaps it might be possible to deduce the correct rules of reasoning from the mere assumption that we have some ultimate aim.
But I cannot see how this could be done.
If we had, for example, no other aim then the pleasure of the momnet, we should fall back