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even number, the remainder will be an even number — all this 

 being a matter of strict demonstration. But we have nothing 

 like this kind of certitude about dogs and cats, not to mention 

 the less familiar objects of even ordinary experience. Recog- 

 nizing, therefore, how provisional most of our knowledge is, 

 let us, for the time being, make all possible use of universals 

 ut nunc. 



John A. Oesterle 



University of Notre Dame, 

 Notre Dame, Indiana. 



