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of distinctions of such detail. For though it is such upon which logic-books almost exclusively insist, they are really of the third rank of logical importance. In the inquiry, all the possibly significant circumstances of the surprising phenomenon are mustered and pondered, until conjecture furnishes some possible Explanation of it, by which I mean a syllogism exhibiting the surprising fact as necessarily following from the circumstances of its occurrence together with the truth of the conjecture, as premisses.

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