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In order to sustain their position that all criticism of a reasoning appeals to the same thing, the defendants would have to take for this invariable object of appeal the logical norm.
It is true that we have a feeling of approval; but this feeling is rather a result or accompaniment of the judgement of approval than a cause of it.
To say that we appeal to it or base our reasoning on it or assume it to be infallible, it to suppose that we reason in this way: "So and so is agreeable to my mind; therefore, it must be true."
German professors educated in theological seminaries may reason in that way; but no man of any force of mind does so.
But the claim of the defendent-argument is that it is unthinkable that any inference should be drawn except by virtue of the "logisches Gefuhl."
To sustain this assertion, it would be necessary to amend it by substituting in place of the "logisches Gefuhl" the