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Logic 37

process was one continuous (though undoubtedly varied) procss. At any rate it is only the self-defence of the process that is clearly broken up into arguments.
It is more than doubtful whether what we can state as an argument or inference represents any part of the thinking exceot in the logical relation of the truth of the premiss to the truth of the conclusion.
And moreover the argument so considered consists in the statements in words.
How nearly they represent anything really in the thought is very doubtfully and quite immaterial.
The real thinking process presumably begins at the very percepts.
But a percept cannot be represented in words and consequently the first part of the thinking cannot be represented by any logical form of argument.
Our logical accounts of the matter has to stand from a perceptual fact or proposition resulting from thought about percept