Excerpt from Logic or the Morphology of Knowledge, Vol. 2 of 2 And of course it might be correlatively maintained that facts are not data, except by virtue of a result; or if this is not true of data but only of premises, then that inference does not start from data but only from premises 1. At first sight such a contention seems to blink the difficulty. The conclusion, it seems, may be removed by a week's work from the data or premises; and granting that they are not rightly called data or premises till the week's end when the conclusion is won, still the facts concerned were present and active at the beginning of the week and certainly entered into the advance that has been made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.