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G61

be free to use the prediction if he likes? Not at all: the validity
of his qualitative de induction will be found to depend upon his following
a rational and decisive method; and he has no more right, but
rather less, to favor the inductive ad rejection of the retroductive
suggestion, than to favor its inductive adoption; and he is bound, as
a man who means to reason as honestly as the imperfections of his
nature and training will permit, to take admit the true prediction
into his counsels. The predictions must eventually be so varied as to test
every feature of the hypothesis; yet the interests of science command

G61

be free to use the prediction if he likes? Not at all: the validity of his qualitative induction will be found to depend upon his following a rational and decisive method; he has no more right, but rather less, to favor the inductive rejection of the retroductive suggestion, than to favor its inductive adoption; and he is bound, as a man who means to reason as honestly as the imperfections of his nature and training will permit, to admit the true prediction into his counsels. The predictions must eventually be so varied as to test every feature of the hypothesis; yet the interests of science command