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such aids, yet furnish nothing but crude inductions, after all. The principle of this theory also sufficiently explains how it is that we meet such frequent opportunities to draw crude inductions as we do. But the moment the attempt is made to apply this theory to justifying, or explaining the validity even of crude inductions, (and it is still worse with other kinds of induction,) it lays itself open to all the objections to the first method, including the five that were specified above. For this second theory, which is the point where Mill's vain attempt to make reasoning able to get along without generalization becomes the most futile, and verges closely upon overt absurdity, differs

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