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All Magnets are A B C (Assumed by [Greek: nous], i.e. the

Inductive faculty)

All Magnets attract iron (Major premiss of the last Syllogism

proved by taking the minor term of that for the middle term of

this.)

Or, according to the canon quoted above: A B C are Magnets. A B C

attract iron.

But [Greek: nous] tells me that the term Magnets is coextensive

with the term A B C, therefore of all Magnets I may predicate

that they attract iron.

Induction is said by Aristotle to be [Greek: hoia phanton], but

he says in the same place that for this reason we must conceive

([Greek: noehin]) the term containing the particular Instances

(as A B C above) as composed of all the Individuals.