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Syllogism._

§ 1. Is the syllogism a petitio principii? 202

2. Insufficiency of the common theory 203

3. All inference is from particulars to particulars 205

4. General propositions are a record of such inferences, and the rules of the syllogism are rules for the interpretation of the record 214

5. The syllogism not the type of reasoning, but a test of it 218

6. The true type, what 222

7. Relation between Induction and Deduction 226

8. Objections answered 227

9. Of Formal Logic, and its relation to the Logic of Truth 231

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