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about abstractions. It cannot reason
for example about qualities nor about
relations as subjects to be reasoned
about. It cannot reason about ideas.
It is to supply that defect that the
gamma part of the subject has been
invented. But this gamma part is
still in its infancy. It will be many
years before my successors will be
able to bring it to the perfection
to which the alpha and beta parts
have been brought. For logical investigation
is very slow, involving as it
does the taking up of a confused
mass of ordinary ideas, embracing we