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that induces an assent, with or
without quantitative modification, to a
proposition already put forward, this
assent or modified assent being regarded
as the provisional result of a method that
must ultimately bring the truth to light; while
Abduction must cover all the operations by
which theories and conceptions are engendered.

How is it that man ever came by any
correct theories about nature? We know
by Induction that man has correct theories; for they produce
predictions that are fulfilled. But by
what process of thought were they ever
brought to his mind? A chemist

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