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what lies perdu in the Meaning of its premisses. This, I am sure sounds Plausible, and I cannot demand more of my readers' attention than is requisite to making it so. I pass, then, to the warrant of Induction. This lies in the fact that it follows a Method which, though it may at first lead the inquirer into some error, yet pursued with the persistence it essentially requires is sure to correct its own error. Its weakest Order, Crude Presumption, as long as it is confined to the sphere of experience, must ultimately flatly contradict its first conclusion, if this was erroneous.

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