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Moreover, Aristotle was the last of men to fail to
see this. I looked along further and found
that having noticed in chapter 24 a particular
variation of induction,
Aristotle opens the 25th with a description
of the inference of the minor premiss from
the major premiss and the conclusion. At
least, so it is natural to understand the
excessively abbreviated language which
he employs throughout this book. But unless
a wrong word has been substituted, which might
easily happen owing to the peculiar history
of Aristotle's manuscripts, and which
unquestionably did happen in chapter
23rd, in a place