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degree, in as much as it applies to the more carefully considered and critical procedure and in as much as such a theory would give the critical revision of our thought would be free.
Eminent and learned, therefore, as those scholars are, I do not see how we can avoid resorting to the opinion that though they speak of a "feeling", they do not mean that, but the perception that our inference accords with our logical ideal.
We are confirmed in the belief that this is really what they mean by the circumstance that it really is unthinkable that a reasoning, in the proper sense of the term, should fail to be accompanied by that percieved satisfaction of the ideal, since until it has passed through the [?ore] of criticism, it is not properly to be called a reasoning.