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But it forces us along step by a step to much clearer
conceptions of the objects of logic than have ever
been attained before. The hard fact that it has yielded
such fruit is the principal argument in its favor.
The method has a general similarity to Hegel's.
It would be historically false to call it a modification
of Hegel's. It was brought into being by the study of
Kant's categories and not Hegel's. Hegel's method has
the defect of not working at all if you think with too
great exactitude. Moreover, it presents no such definite
question to the mind as this method does. This method
works better the finer and more accurate the thought. The
subtlest mind cannot get the best possible results
from it; but a mind of very moderate skill
can make better analyses by this method than the
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