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a certain quality of feeling accompanies the judgement, a feeling of logical approval.
When ever a man really reasons, he not only thinks that his conclusion is true but that an analogous conclusion would be justified in every analogous case.
This proves that he does subject his forest irresistible inference to comparison with a Norm.
Of course, he could not thus criticize it unless he first doubted it.
But if it sustains the criticism it again becomes irresistible and more solidly so this time than it was before.

Still, knowing that he sometimes blunders, new doubts may arise, and he may repeat his criticism again and again.
It will, however, be substantially nothing but a repetition of the first criticism.

If however the reasoner is beginning to be a scientific logician, he may be led to entertain a