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CHAPTER VI. THE INDIRECT METHOD OF INFERENCE.

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See Horsley, Philosophical Transactions, 1772; vol. lxii. p. 327. Montucla, Histoire des Mathematiques, vol. i. p. 239. Penny Cyclopædia, article “Eratosthenes.”

2

Euclid, Book x. Prop. 117.

3

Philosophical Magazine, December 1852; Fourth Series, vol. iv. p. 435, “On Indirect Demonstration.”

4

Philosophical Magazine, Dec. 1852; p. 437.

5

Mind; a Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy; October, 1876, vol. i. p. 487.

6

Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences, vol. i. p. 222.

7

Formal Logic, p. 124. As Professor Croom Robertson has pointed out to me, the second and third premises may be thrown into a single proposition, D = DeBC ꖌ DEbc.

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