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http://www.archive.org/stream/groundworkscien01mivagoog/groundworkscien01mivagoog_djvu.txt - forms of psychical activity. Now these psychical activities must be anterior to any processes of reasoning, and form the data whence all reasonings pro- ceed. But the elucidation of these data is the business of psychology. Surely, then, the science which deals with the initiation and performance of psychical phenomena (phenomena which constitute the data and basis of logic) 22 THE GROUNDWORK OF SCIENCE may claim priority over, and to be more fundamental than, logic itself. But the science of reasoning cannot, for another reason, validly lay claim to be primary and fundamental, since it requires other data than those given it by psychology. Now in order to prove anything by reasoning,
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