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the hypothesis explains, until the light of that illumines mind, and sometimes even then only in terms of it. Nevertheless, the course of thought is essentially the same as in passing from a consequent to its conditions.

Retroduction we are compelled to begin with if we are ever to discover a law or the rationale of any phenomenon. But the conclusion of a Retroduction is always more or less problematic, and if we attempt, as very many do, to render it more certain by an extension of the same kind of operation, problematic it will still remain and but little more Plausible than it was. Retroduction can never be secure until it has been tested; and

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