I said:Take the wraps off her puss. No, thats whatI call them. But that’s what they are, all right. This self-appointed group determined to stifle any form of creativity that isn’t absolutely orthodox. Yeah. Thats what they all say. You got any more comments? Whatd you do to provoke her? Maybe this will be the time. correct cagey thoughtless The former of these requisites is that to which our attention will be exclusively directed in the present chapter. Sure, Merton said. But wheres Linda’s car? And how are you going to convince anyoneyou didn’t weld that thing on? Induction, as above defined, is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown; and any operation involving no inference, any process in which what seems the conclusion is no wider than the premises from which it is drawn, does not fall within the meaning of the term. Yetin the common books of Logic we find this laid down as the most perfect, indeed the only quite perfect, form of induction. In those books, every process which sets out from a less general and terminates in a more general expression—which admits of being stated in the form, This and that A are B, therefore every A is B—is called an induction, whether any thing be really concluded or not: and the induction is asserted not to be perfect, unless every single individual of the class A is included in the antecedent, or premise: that is, unless what we affirm of the class has already been ascertained to be true of every individual in it, so that the nominal conclusion is not really a conclusion, but a mere re-assertion of the premises. If we were to say, All the planets shine by the suns light, from observation of each separate planet, or All the Apostles were Jews, because this is true of Peter, Paul, John, and every other apostle—these, and such as these, would, in the phraseology in question, be called perfect, and the only perfect, Inductions. This, however, is a totally different kind of induction from ours; it is not an inference from facts known to facts unknown,but a mere short-hand registration of facts known. The two simulated arguments which we have quoted, are not generalizations; the propositions purporting to be conclusions from them, are not really general propositions. A general proposition is one in which the predicate is affirmed or denied of anunlimited number of individuals; namely, all, whether few or many, existing or capable of existing, which possess the properties connoted by the subject of the proposition. “All men are mortal does not mean all now living, but all men past, present, and to come. When the signification of theterm is limited so as to render it a name not for any and every individual falling under a certain general description, but only for each of a number of individuals, designated as such, and as it were counted off individually, the proposition, though it may be general in its language, is no generalproposition, but merely that number of singular propositions, written in an abridged character. The operation may be very useful, as most forms of abridged notation are; but it is no part of the investigation of truth, though often bearing an important part in the preparation of the materials for that investigation. No. How do you think she got the money to go to India that first time? he asks. My sister Annie has told me at least a hundred times that she can recall her entire life as if it is on a loop of film. She can play the loop backward or forward, stopping it on any frame she wishes, calling up memories at will. Little gorl? he says again, and this time she realizes the voice is actually in the apartment with her and not being beamed from somewhere out in Televisionland, actually coming from under the sink, actually coming from Mr. Alvarez under the sink in his baggy blue pants and short-sleeved green shirt and little blue sweater vest. Annie herself is wearing a short cotton nightgown with red check cotton panties and over that the bathrobe Grandma Rozalia gave her for her tenth birthday last year. She is also wearing bedroom slippers that have bunny faces on them, and little bunny ears sticking up. The slippers are purple, and she knows they dont match the nightgown or the robe or for that matter the red check panties. This bothers her a little. That the slippers don’t match anything. Writing any book involves a huge amount of teamwork, including those who help me with my research, with editing, the cover design, the marketing, the social media and so much more, and Ive been blessed over the years to have the support of so many talented people. He nodded and I walked to the cooler. It was at his side, maybe five feet from him, and I got one of the trick paper cups and fiddled with it and he looked down at the magazine again. I took my gun out from under my coat and bopped him across the jaw with it. He just dropped his head down on the magazine without a sound. I opened the door into the hall, very quietly, didnt see anything of either Kirby or Macintosh, and whistled. They came around the bend in the hall and up to me and I saw Macintosh had a nice start toward a black eye and more scratches on his face than I had. I whispered: Where’s the bitch? Annie isnt fluent in any language except English, but she does have a smattering of French and Italian, so maybe her recounting of the dialogue at the table is accurate. In any case, in yetanother retelling of the story, Lise was fluent in Italian, including the Neapolitanand Sicilian dialects, and it was she who was doing the translating. Here, then, is how the conversation at the table went, as translated by a German girl from Frankfurt, repeated later by Annie, and sincerely doubted by Bertuzzi. I said:Im going to make it tough on a man before I leave town. I’ll promise you that. If it’s the last crying thing I do on this earth I’m going to make it tough on a man. I’ve run into some cute capers in my life but this one here has got anything beat I ever saw. It’s unique. It’s so fool-proof there’s a hole in it and I’m going to find that hole. The waitress turns to us. She seems ready to come to the table, ready to ask us to leave if we cant maintain at least some small measure of decorum here. I want to tell her Hey, lady, my sister is a lunatic who may be about to harm herself or others, so what do you expect here, the New York Public Library? What do you mean cases like mine? she asked, and suddenly sat bolt upright. Whats that supposed to mean, cases like mine? With regard to the modern philosophers (Leibnitz and the Cartesians) whom I had cited as having maintained that the action of mind upon matter, so far from being the only conceivable origin of material phenomena, is itself inconceivable; the attempt to rebut this argument by asserting that the mode, not the fact, of the action of mind on matter was represented as inconceivable, is an abuse of the privilege of writing confidently about authors without reading them; for any knowledge whatever of Leibnitz would have taught those who thus speak of him, that the inconceivability of the mode, and the impossibility of the thing, were in his mind convertible expressions. What was his famous Principle of the Sufficient Reason, the very corner-stone of his Philosophy, from which the Pre-established Harmony, the doctrine of Monads, and all the opinions most characteristic of Leibnitz, were corollaries? It was, that nothing exists, the existence of which is not capable of being proved and explaineda priori; the proof and explanation in the case of contingent facts being derived from the nature of their causes; which could not be the causes unless there was something in their nature showing them to be capable of producing those particular effects. And this something which accounts for the production of physical effects, he was able to find in many physical causes, but could not find it in any finite minds, which therefore he unhesitatingly asserted to be incapable of producing any physical effects whatever. “On ne saurait concevoir, he says, “une action réciproque de la matière et de lintelligence l’une sur l’autre, and there is therefore (he contends) no choice but between the Occasional Causes of the Cartesians and his own Pre-established Harmony, according to which there is no more connection between our volitions and our muscular actions than there is between two clocks which are wound up to strike at the same instant. But he felt no similar difficulty as to physical causes; and throughout his speculations, as in the passage I have already cited respecting gravitation, he distinctly refuses to consider as part of the order of nature any fact which is not explicable from the nature of its physical cause..