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of a state of things describable in a different general statement,- and this latter general statement constitutes the conclusion.
To show that this really is a correct description of Deduction, it will suffice to consider the general structure of Euclid's demonstrations,- Euclid's being more formally correct in statement that ardent mathematicians think is needful.
He invariably begins with a general statement of what he intends to prove.
This is called the provosition; in Greek [], that is the pretension, or preliminary statement.
In Aristotle it means a premiss.
He then restates the condition of his proposition in such a form as to assign a selective or proper name to

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