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We have thus a fundamental theorem of political science, consisting of three syllogisms, and depending chiefly on two general premises, in each of which a certain effect is considered as determined only by one cause, notby a concurrence of causes. In the one, it is assumed that the actions of average rulers are determined solely by self-interest; in the other, that the sense of identity of interest with the governed, is produced and producible by no other cause than responsibility. Because... if thats not enough... I walk in here on a set-up thats damned near perfect and you expect me to crack it. I’ve got the whole damned town against me and you expect me to perform a miracle. I grant that thedecision of questions of Existence usually if not always depends on a previous question of either Causation or Co-existence. But Existence is nevertheless a different thing from Causation or Co-existence, and can be predicated apart from them. The meaning of the abstract name Existence, and the connotation of the concrete name Being, consist, like the meaning of all other names, in sensations or states of consciousness: their peculiarity is that to exist, is to excite, or be capable of exciting, any sensations or states of consciousness: no matter what, but it is indispensable that there should be some. It was from overlooking this that Hegel, finding that Being is an abstraction reached by thinking away all particular attributes, arrived at the self-contradictory proposition on which he founded all his philosophy, that Being is the same as Nothing. It is really the name of Something, taken in the most comprehensive sense of the word. § 4. Among the remaining forms of erroneous generalization, several of those most worthy of and most requiring notice have fallen under our examination in former places, where, in investigating the rules of correct induction, we have had occasion to advert to the distinction between it and some common mode of the incorrect. In this number is what I have formerly called the natural Induction of uninquiring minds, the induction of the ancients, which proceedsper enumerationem simplicem: This, that, and the other A are B, I can not think of any A which is not B, therefore every A is B. As a final condemnation of this rude and slovenly mode of generalization, I will quote Bacons emphatic denunciation of it; the most important part, as I have more than once ventured to assert, of the permanent service rendered by him to philosophy. “Inductio quæ procedit per enumerationem simplicem, res puerilis est, et precario concludit (concludes only by your leave, or provisionally), “et periculo exponitur ab instantiâ contradictoriâ, et plerumque secundum pauciora quam par est, et ex his tantummodo quæ præsto sunt pronunciat. At Inductio quæ ad inventionem et demonstrationem Scientiarum et Artium erit utilis, Naturam separare debet, per rejectiones et exclusiones debitas; ac deinde post negativas tot quot sufficiunt, super affirmativas concludere. The man smiled and shook his head with easy good nature.No, Rob, he said, “that isnt going to do. We weren’t dumb enough to let the car sit there without having someone to keep an eye on it. To tell you the truth, we were good and worried when you didn’t come down to drive it away. It bothered us a bit. Go right ahead. The Court also has a few questions it would like to have answered. This procedure is probably a little irregular, but were going to try and get to the bottom of this thing. She held the door open and said,Come on in. Lobo. Chapter Nineteen Gorgeous, yes. Dont do that. Don’t wait around, Rob. Only I... I got Wendel by the elbow and started him out the door, which stopped the argument. He told me, all the way down in the elevator, and all the time it took for us to drive to Crandalls office, just what a fool he’d been to try and fight the divorce. That if his wife didn’t think enough of him even to talk it over with him he was better off without her. Come, Lobo, Trenton said. With his heart in his mouth, he made his way back down the spiral staircase, silently, stealthily, guided by the beam of the phone torch. He stopped when he reached the landing beneath the fuse box. Stared at the handle. It was a big, old-fashioned handle, like a lever. Like the one in his parents house. Could a lightning strike have tripped it? No. A strike might have taken the power out by causing a short. But it wouldn’t have lifted this heavy handle. Rob Trenton thanked her, started for the door.Say, she asked, “whats the name of the party you want? That isn’t where Linda Carroll lives, is it? I said I was glad to meet Mr. Macintosh, even though I didnt know whether I meant it or not, and took a seat across the desk from the two of them. Kirby tossed a telegram across to me and said: What sort of papers?.