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Logic 75

trying to seize it [pulsin?] self into a resolutely hostile posture of mind towards it.
Does he wish to know what I mean.
If so let him postpone criticism until he clearly apprehends what it is that is to be criticized.
There are many minds who will be so occupied with a certain obpition that it will quite eclipse the sense of what I have been saying.
They will urge that those machines do not perform any inference at all that it is on the contrary we who knowing how they ate constructed (be it in detail or in a general way by testimony) infer that the number which is exhibited at the end of the process must be in a certain arithmetical relation to the numbers which determined the setting and working of the machine.

It will further be urged that if those machines were to be regarded as reasoning there are others which would reason in far higher ways.
For the calculating