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The effect of it in the philosophical professors is to make them prone to be drawn into fallacies.
For fallacies are usually due to something like pedentry.
The German mind is also very subjective in its tendencies, so that while the correctness of reasoning is really a question of fact and has nothing to do with how we think, the German naturally expects to find the secret of reasoning in the mind.
This inclines him to this particular fallacy.
Owing to the manner in which German professors are paid, there is a great deal of fashion, of gregariousness in the opinions that prevail throughout the universities of Germany, and owing to the necessity of writing huge books, details are more throughly examined than first principles.
In that way this fallacy, or others closely resembling it, has become prevalent among German logicians eho naturally influence the scientific professors in opinions about reasoning.
Now German's lead the world in most branches of science, and have thus aquired an authority which ought not to be accor-