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Excerpt from Of the Baconian Philosophy
Believing with Bacon, that, It ought to be eternally resolved and settled, that the un derstanding cannot decide otherwise, than by Induction, and by a legitimate form of it, I have endeavoured in the following dis course, to do something towards settling the great problem. The discourse therefore. Lies within the province of logic in the most com prehensive meaning of that term, as embrac ing the method of investigation, the grounds of human belief, and the origin of all knowl edge. It is true, that in the first part of the discourse, I have endeavoured, not only to show the grand results of Induction as an or gan of Investigation, but also, to vindicate the philosophy which it has built up from the grave accusations that have been preferred against it. But this is nothing more, than a vindication of Induction from objections urged against it, on account of the imputed couse.
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