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It is altogether analogous to the sound of the words, were the conclusion spoken, or to the appearance of the letters were it printed.
It would be ridiculous to conclude a thing to be true for no other reason than that the words that express it had an agreeable ring.
Yet it is something exactly similar to that which the defendent argument expects us to grant as a matter of course that we always do when we reason.
It is not only maintained that this is true, but that it is unthinkable that it should be otherwise, and this claim is so downright absurd, that we are forced to try whether it be not the second feeling, the feeling involved in the perception that the inference accords in the perception that the inference accords with our logical ideals to which the eminent and learned defendents give the name of "logical feeling."
But this is [?rsonoly] open to the same objection, and if possible in a higher