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O.48

The third Stage of inquiry ascertains how much experiential truth there is in any proposition reached as a fruit of either of the preceding stages; and the previous explicit mental enunciation of the proposition is essential to the validity of the third consists in the inquirer's making up a sample of a given class of objects, say the Ms (the number of objects to be taken having been determined upon in advance by successively taking single Ms from the entire collection of all Ms, so that, as far as possible, all equal parts in the entire collection may be equally represented, and always under special precaution equally against being in any way, directly or indirectly, influenced toward taking any M into the sample by the fact of its possessing a certain character, say that of being B, this character have been predesignate from the beginning and against being influenced in the contrary way; and after a certain predesignate number numerous

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