[Footnote 3:] See article on Counter-Sense, Contemporary Review, April, 1884.
PART IV.
THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF PROPOSITIONS.—MEDIATE INFERENCE.—SYLLOGISM.
Chapter I.
THE SYLLOGISM.
We have already defined mediate inference as the derivation of a conclusion from more than one proposition. The type or form of a mediate inference fully expressed consists of three propositions so related that one of them is involved or implied in the other two.
Distraction is exhausting.
Modern life is full of distraction