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Many persons will think that there are other ways of
acquiring skill in the art of inquiry which will be more
instructive that the logical study of the theory of inquiry.
That may be; I shall not [disputeir?]; for it would carry
me far beyond the confines of my province. I only claim
that however much one may learn in other ways of the
method of attacking an unfamiliar problem, some-
thing may be added to that knowledge by considering
the general theory of how research must be performed.
At the same time, it is this theory itself, for itself,
which will have to be the principal object.

In coming to speculative rhetoric, after the main
conceptions of logic have been well-settled, there can
be no serious [objection?] to relaxing the severity of
our rule of excluding psychological matter, obser-
vations of how we think, and the like. The regulation