Gerald Bivens

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We come to the full possession of our power of drawing inferences, the last of all our faculties; for it is not so much a natural gift as a long and difficult art.1

The object of reasoning is to find out, from the consideration of what we already know, something else which we do not know.2

Notes

  1. Charles Peirce, "The Fixation of Belief," in The Pragmatism Reader (City of publication: Publisher, Year published), Page range.
  2. Ibid, .