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but unfortunately these can only be understood
in the least in the light of deduction. Without
that one could not even comprehend what
inductive and abductive reasoning are. All
that I have said, therefore, is merely a very
inadequate preparation for these last two
lectures; and the latter of these will have
to be curtailed in a most injurious fashion.
Logic, let me tell you, while it is a subject
requiring continual stress of mind, is by no
means a dry and uninteresting topic.
But it becomes so, as any science would,
when it has to be compressed to a very
injurious and almost fatal degree. Where
it differs from other sciences is that fragments