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Logic 94 On the History of Science

so since the church declares it to be true.

It may be the part of good sense for a person to employ a method of reasoning that he or she does not understand - say for example the method of least squares - on the recommendation of a respectable teacher only it is not a scientific proceeding.
Authority from the nature of things cannot advance knowledge.

11thly Appeal is often made by logical writers to the history of science as supporting their views of eight reasoning.
Wherrell placed his Novum Organum Renovatum a work of high logical value almost exclusively upon the basis of this method.
As a source of secondary evidence upon such general doctrines of logic a may need such general doctrines of logic as may need such help and even og primary evidence as to the value of special modes of reasoning this method has been (it would be disgraceful to deny it) occasionally of no little service.
In making use of it it will be necessary of course to