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after universe, you might form statistics as to
the proportion of universes in which the
proposition is true. But since you cannot
do that, to speak of the probability of the truth of a general
proposition, to speak, that is to say, of the statistical ratio
of frequency with which in the future course of experience
the proposition will
be found true, leaves us at a loss to conjecture
what the other term of that ratio can be
meant to be. It thus became plain to me
that induction is something radically different
in its nature from deduction; and I was
thus led to ask, What is induction? I endeavored
to formulate the process syllogistically;
and I found that it could
be defined as the inference of the major