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convincing, yet I found it too lengthy and dry; and
I felt that it would abuse your patience to ask you
to follow the minute eamination of all possible
ways in which the conclusion and the premises
might be [emended?] in hopes of finding a loop-hole of escape from the
refutation. I have, therefore, decided simply to
describe the phenomena presented in
reasoning and then to point out to you how
the argument under examination must
falsify these facts however it be interpreted.
This ought to satisfy you as far as this argu-
ment is concerned, and when you meet with
other forms of the same tangle you will see
for yourselves that they falsify the facts of
reasoning in the same way. I had better
mention that the argument I shall criticize
is often to quite another objection than that
which I notice,--and a more obvious one.
You may wonder why I pass over it. It is

convincing, yet I found it too lengthy and dry; and
I felt that it would abuse your patience to ask you
to follow the minute eamination of all possible
ways in which the conclusion and the premises
might be [emended?] in hopes of finding a loop-hole of escape from the
refutation. I have, therefore, decided simply to
describe the phenomena presented in
reasoning and then to point out to you how
the argument under examination must
falsify these facts however it be interpreted.
This ought to satisfy you as far as this argu-
ment is concerned, and when you meet with
other forms of the same tangle you will see
for yourselves that they falsify the facts of
reasoning in the same way. I had better
mention that the argument I shall criticize
is often to quite another objection than that
which I notice,--and a more obvious one.
You may wonder why I pass over it. This