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analytical mechanics.
Does that prove that the game of billiards does not depend upon the principles of dynamics?
It proves, if you please, that for the attainment of mastery in any art the chief requirement is training and not theory.
It id largely true of the art of reasoning of which logic is the theory.
But itis less true here than in most arts; because you do not reason unless you compare your inferences with your norms.
Now the acceptance of these norms is a theory of right reasoning.
So that it is impossible to reason without having a theory of logic, however vague it maybe.
For this reason the logical norms used to be called a man's logiea uterus.
Physicists and naturalists have really paid very earnest and incessant attention to the question of what the best methods of inquiry are, although they have perhaps not studied it as systematically as they might have done.
But let ir be granted as