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system, I can promise you that it will do wonders for you in helping to unravel tangles of thought.

But let the aim of this system not be mistaken.
I wish to say with all the emphasis I can command and once for all, that it is not intended to afford a speedy or ready passage from premisses to conclusion.
It aims in the very opposite direction; namely, to break up reasonings into their smallest fragments, so that their constitution can be fully understood our aim.
To effect a speedy and ready passage from premisses to conclusion, we should want on the contrary, to reduce long series of reasonings to single steps; which is precisely what we shall aim to avoid.
In short, this system is not at all intended for an aid in reasoning, but only for an aid in the analysis of reasonings.
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