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rules are adhered to.
I wish you to understand what the purpose of this system of expression is.
It is not its purpose to enable us to draw any conclusions which we could not draw without it, not to draw any conclusions that we could not just as easily and ject as securely draw without it.
If that should be the result, in some cases, well and good: but that I wish to say with all emphasis and distinctness is not what I aim at.
The only thing I aim at is to obtain machinery by which I can pick necessary reasonings into their smallest parts, to carry the analysis of them to their very elements, and thus to discover what those elements are and how they are put together.
If my aim were to facilitate reasoning, instead of en-