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jasirs94 at Mar 25, 2017 10:36 PM

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antecede it. I will give an illustration of such "virtual antecedence.
Suppose that to avoid wasting a great deal of time upon a
hypothesis which the first comparisons with the facts may show to be
utterly worthless, an investigator of a certain conjecture draws up and resolves upon
to follow a well-considered initial programme of for work upon the
question, and that this consists mainly in working out and
testing as many consequences of the hypothesis as can be worked he can work
out by a certain mathematical method and can ascertain the
truth or falsity of at a cost of not more than $100 for each. But

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antecede it. I will give an illustration of such virtual antecedence. Suppose that to avoid wasting a great deal of time upon a hypothesis which the first comparisons with the facts may show to be utterly worthless, an investigator of a certain conjecture draws up and resolves to follow a well-considered initial programme for work upon the question, and that this consists mainly in working out and testing as many consequences of the hypothesis as he can work out by a certain mathematical method and can ascertain the truth or falsity of at a cost of not more than $100 for each. But