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that what seems good reasoning is so "rests on a confusion twice affecting the thought.
Some of the writers who fall into the fallacious reasoning put a high value on the phrase "logical feeling", logisches Gefuhl, which they apply to the deliberate approval of a reasoning.
There is undoubtedly a pleasurable feeling sometimes noticeable in connection with drawing an inference; and all who fall into this fallacy evidently have the idea that the definitive acceptance of an inference is something more or less like a feeling in the very act of inference.
There is the first occurance of the confusion.
For a mere quality of feeling is one thing and an approval is no other.
An approval cannot take place until the thing to be approved is there.
In the case of reasoning it is a ratification based on a perception that the inference already provisionally drawn accords with logical ideals.
It those writers meant to say that