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INFERENCE
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It would be better to read the second line of 1369 before the first line(1368-1369).
The following Text proceeds to show that there can be no Invariable Concomitance in the three-featured Probens :
TEXT (1370).
"THE REASONING IN THE FORM—HE MUST BE DARK, BECAUSE HE IS
THE SON OP SO AND SO,-LIKE OTHER SONS OF HIS WHO ARE FOUND TO BE DARK', -CONTAINS THE THREE FEATURED PROBANS, AND YET IT CANNOT LEAD TO ANY VALID
DEFINITE CONCLUSION."-(1370)
COMMENTARY In the following Texts, it is shown, by a number of examples, that it is only the one-featured Probans that has the requisite capacity (of leading to a valid conclusion) :
TEXT (1371). * AN EXAMPLE OF THE One-featured PROBANS WITHOUT CORROBORATIVE INSTANCES, WE HAVE IN THE REASONING- POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ENTITIES ARE ESSENTIALLY existentBECAUSE THEY ARE CAPABLE OF BEING APPRE
HENDED SOMEROW?."-(1371)
COMMENTARY.
The Reasoning is in the form 'Positive and Negative entities are some. how existent, because they are apprehensible somehow '.-In this case there are no external corroborative Instances, either of similarity or dissimilarity, either in the form of a statement or in the form of actual things; because all things have been included under the Subject (Minor Term) 'Positive and Negative entities'; and there is nothing apart from these. As regards the character of being present in the Minor Term ', this is otherwise impossible, and is nothing apart from this latter ; hence the Probans here is onefeatured'
Somehow ', -under some such term as Cognisable or its synonyms.
Are essentially existent', -*somehow' has to be construed with this also.--Hence the full Reasoning is— Because they are somehow apprehensible, therefore they are somehow existent',-(1371)
In the following Texts, examples of the 'two-featured cited:
Probans are
