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Ms. 629
STUDIES IN THE MEANINGS OF OUR THOUGHTS
What is the Aim of Thinking?
Considered in Two Chapters.
Chapter I. The Fixation of Belief.
I.
[.e..?] people care to study logic: each deems himself fully competent already
to distinguish a good argument from a bad one. (I notice, however, that it is
generally agreed that anything like infallibility in that respect is an extremely
rate gift, almost limited to one happy possessor, as to the identity of whom...)

We come to the full possession of the power of drawing inferences the best
of all our faculties; and though the pure eyes {carat: of reason} of many children have
a penetration that they are apt to lose during their teens, yet it this is the one sense