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will answer tolerably for all reasoning.
In other lectures we shall gain much better ideas but this will answer for the present.
The conclusion forces itself upon us irresistibly in the first place, even if it be only regarded as probable.
A certain quality of feeling, often distinctly pleasurable, accompanies the emergence of the inference.

No sooner is the conclusion reached that we roceed to criticize it by comparing it with our norms.
For the conclusion forces itself upon us irresistibly; and yet reasoning, properly speaking, is controlled thought.
The only sense in which it can be controlled is that better the inference is drawn it can be criticized, and of necessary rejected.
If, however, we judge that it satisfies our norms; so that one says to ourselves that an analogous inference would always be logically good,