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jasirs94 at Nov 24, 2016 12:30 AM

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must either gain it by inference or stumble upon it by chance or else go without it? My own answer is unhesitating: the success of modern physical science builded after the model of Galileo, who founded it on il lume naturale, has been such as to leave no room for reasonable doubt that man does "possess a power" to guess right. It is so manifest that I feel shame in condescending to argue such a point. Nevertheless, I will give one among half-a-dozen independent proofs of it. It is evident, then, as DeMorgan first showed; that the members of any possible collection, or arbitrary list, of singulars must possess some

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must either gain it by inference or stumble upon it by chance or else go without it? My own answer is unhesitating: the success of modern physical science builded after the model of Galileo, who founded it on il lume naturale, has been such as to leave no room for reasonable doubt that man does "possess a power" to guess right. It is so manifest that I feel shame in condescending to argue such a point. Nevertheless, I will give one among half-a-dozen independent proofs of it. It is evident, then, as DeMorgan first showed; that the members of any possible collection, or arbitrary list, of singulars must possess some