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it is rendered evident that a certain conclusion
must be true; and this is so whether this relates
to individual single cases or whether it is a statistical
proposition concerning a ratio of frequency in
indefinitely many single instances. The manner in
which the conclusion becomes evident is this.
The premisses are stated in general terms. Now
the mode of being of a general is that of governing
individual cases. Its full expression requires
therefore the presentation of
something corresponding to those cases,—
a quasi-diagram of them. The deduction
makes that diagram and when it is
made it recognizes that this diagram
is and always will be a representation