Inference And The Metaphysic Of Reason PDF Download

Excerpt from The Theory of Inference This book, a wholly secular composition, was originally designed to form part of a treatise on religious faith. But it so grew in the course of being written, in material size and intellectual weight, that at length it seemed desirable to publish it as an independent volume. Although the argument is primarily intended to serve a special purpose, and the form in which it is cast has to a certain extent been determined by that purpose, yet the author ventures to hope that it will be found to have a general and scientific value. He offers it to the thinking public, not merely as a defence and explanation of the habit of assenting to propositions which arc not capable of being demonstrated by one man to another, but as an impartial investigation of the whole of that part of mental science which has to do with inference. He has endeavoured to set forth with all needful clearness and precision the nature and the limits of induction and deduction, as well as to vindicate the essential reasonableness of what he has called illation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.