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examined, and are never likely to examine. The 

 nature and grounds of this inference, and the condi- 

 tions necessary to make it legitimate, will be the 

 subject of discussion in the Third Book : but that 

 such inference really takes place is not susceptible of 

 question. In every induction we proceed from truths 

 which we knew, to truths which we did not know; 

 from facts certified by observation, to facts which we 

 have not observed, and even to facts not capable of 

 being now observed ; future facts, for example ; but 

 which we do not hesitate to believe upon the sole 

 evidence of the induction itself. 



Induction, then, is a real process of Reasoning or 

 Inference. Whether, and in what sense, so much can 

 be said of the Syllogism, remains to be determined by 

 the examination into which we are about to enter. 



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