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it be estimated from the themetrical in the practical
side

Having considered the three fundamental modes
of argument, I now pass to the consideration of
arguments which mingle the characters of these.
Here belongs in the front rank the argument from
shalogy, followed by four ways of supporting "hypo-
theses by uniformities, arguments from [likelihood?],
from the resemblance of the future to the past, etc.

I now go back to consider other theories of the
validity of induction and hypotheses than my own.
I give, as complete an account of these theories
as I can. I show that the arguments which their authors
identify with inductions have in some cases no
force at all, but lean to manifest [abaundity?], and that
in the cases are they nearly as strong as tho true