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admission of
perception.
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of inferential
guilty of a crime for the abandonment of the original position (afqai 214 ) already taken up by you in some form or other.
Secondly,--Again when you maintain that
s excepting Perception all other forms of induction in evidence are alike fallacious and as such sensuous
homogeneous, you admit yourself the legitimacy of induction which is but a form of inference.
Thirdly,Then again you reject every kind of inference ; but how do you carry on your debate ? Surely by means of words which are but symbols of thought: and when you attack your antagonists for their mistaken faith in inference without which you could not so much as surmise that your antagonists held erroneous 'opinions, such erroneous opinions being never brought into contact with your organs of sense but are only supposed to exist on the strength of inference (FTA) from the symbolic movement of thought. And,
Finally,--you can not but admit of interence being another means of knowledge as will be evident from the following. To take for example, I have been very often into
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