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premiss of a syllogism from its minor premiss
and conclusion. Now this was exactly
what Aristotle said it was in 23rd Chapter
of the 2nd Book of the Prior Analytics,
concerning which Grote is the best commentator. Aristotle's
example is

Whatever has no bile is long-loved,
Thus, man, the horse, the mule has no bile;
Whence, man, the horse, the mule is long-lived.

From the first two propositions the third follows
deductively; but by induction we infer the first
from the second and third. With this hint as to
the nature of induction, I at once remarked
that if this be so there ought to
be a form of inference which infers the
Minor premiss from the major and the conclusion