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The logicians have attempted to answer the preceding considerations. For that, a transformation of logistic was necessary, and Russell in particular has modified on certain points his original views. Without entering into the details of the debate, I should like to return to the two questions to my mind most important: Have the rules of logistic demonstrated their fruitfulness and infallibility? Is it true they afford means of proving the principle of complete induction without any appeal to intuition?

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The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method, Project Gutenberg eBook #39713

XIII The Infallibility of Logistic