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Deduction has two parts. For the first step must be to Explicate the hypothesis, i.e. to render it perfectly distinct. This process of Explication or Logical Analysis is an Argument, since it elicits truth; although it does not rest on distinctly formulated premisses. In that respect it resembles Retroduction from which however it more essentially differs in that the reasoner here merely interprets his own meaning, and cannot go wrong from lack of information, but if he proceeds right must reach a true conclusion. To describe the process is not my intention: it closely resembles the second part of Deduction, which is Demonstration. The first book of Euclid's Elements best shows

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