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the premisses upon which he bases his reasoning.
This is so evident, that it is necessary to suppose that those who fall into the fallacy confuse the pleasure of inference with the approval of it as according with logical ideals.
it is quite true that it is unthinkable that a reasoner should not approve of his reasoning, since if he failed to so so he would have omitted the selferiticism which is the essence of controlled thought.
But the thinkers whom I am opposing at once fall into another similar confusion in supposing that no conclusion is ever drawn that is not based upon the approval of it.