Chapter 13

TRANSITION TO INDUCTION

Sec.1. Formal Consistency and Material Truth 159 Sec.2. Real General Propositions assert more than has been directly observed 160 Sec.3. Hence, formally, a Syllogism's Premises seem to beg the Conclusion 162 Sec.4. Materially, a Syllogism turns upon the resemblance of the Minor to the Middle Term; and thus extends the Major Premise to new cases 163 Sec.5. Restatement of the _Dictum_ for material reasoning 165 Sec.6. Uses of the Syllogism 167 Sec.7. Analysis of the Uniformity of Nature, considered as the formal ground of all reasoning 169 Sec.8. Grounds of our belief in Uniformity 173