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Logic 95 On every-day experience

take good care that the history if open to no doubt.
But there are great numbers of facts of scientific history about which it is as impossible for any sane man to entertain any real doubt (unless indeed we include German "higher critics" among that number) as about anny item of the multiplication table.
We also have to ask whether the facts are sufficiently numerous to lend any great certainty to an induction.
That depends on what facts they are as well as on how broad the induction mmaybe that one thinks to rest upon them.
It must be admitted that as things are at present certain special kinds of reasoning which rest mainly upon scientific experience are open to the more danger in that those who employ them will most likely quite forget how unsafe they really are.

12thly Every-day experience such as presses in upon every man at every hour of his life is open to other doubts than that it may not have been currently formulated in general terms. This must be the main source of what little matter of fact