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that a normative science, in view of the economies of the case, should be quite useless for any practical application. Still, whatever fact had no bearing upon a conceivable application to practice would be entirely impertinent to such a science. It would be easy enough,--much too easy,--to marshal a goodly squadron of treatises on logic each of them swelled out with matter foreign matter un to any conceivable applicability, until, like a corpulent man, it can no longer see what it is standing {missing: [in]}, and the reader loses all clear view of the true problems of the science. But since the relation of the theory of logic to conceivable applications of it will, by and by, come up for clever examination, we need now consider it further.

§2. Of Minute Accuracy

How shall the theory of right meaning be investigated? The nature of the subject must be an important factor in determining the method. Before

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that a normative science, in view of the economies of the case, should be quite useless for any practical application. Still, whatever fact had no bearing upon a conceivable application to practice would be entirely impertinent to such a science. It would be easy enough,--much too easy,--to marshal a goodly squadron of treatises on logic each of them swelled out with matter foreign matter un to any conceivable applicability, until, like a corpulent man, it can no longer see what it is standing {missing: [in]}, and the reader loses all clear view of the true problems of the science. But since the relation of the theory of logic to conceivable applications of it will, by and by, come up for clever examination, we need now consider it further.

§2. Of Minute Accuracy

How shall the theory of right meaning be investigated? The nature of the subject must be an important factor in determining the method. Before

{Left margin, top of page: "The Logic in Fashion."}