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Logic 93 On the stability of society. On authority

of logical questions.

9thly As well-known logician whose contributions to one part of the science are valuable but whose treatise as a whole represents the agnostic disease at its crisis adopts as his definition of good and bad reasoning its tendency towards and against the stability of the existing order of society.
This method is open to most of the objections' that have been urged against the foregoing eight as well as to some others.

10thly A few og the medieval logicians modified the principles of logic professedly so as to make them square with the authority of the church.
This procedure should not be confounded with the passion of those ardent souls who delight to believe at the dictates of their religion all that they know to be most degradingly absurd.
This method is not that but consists in arguing that what seems to be absurd cannot really be