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so certain conjectures seem likely and easy in themselves.
Secondly we wish our conduct to be consistent.
Just so, the ideal necessary reasoning is consistency simply.
Third, we consider what the general effect would be of throughly carrying out our ideals.
Just so certain ways of reasoning recommend themselves became if persistently carried out they must lead to the truth.
The parallelism, you percieve, is almost exact.

There is also such a thing a general logical intention.
But it is not emphasized for the reason that the will does not enter so violently into reasoning as it does into moral conduct.
I have already mentioned the logical norms, which corresponds to moral laws.
In taking up any difficult problem of reasoning we formulate to ourselves a logical resolution; but here again, because the will is not at such high tension in rea-