Note 34 — Chapter XXIII · OF APPROXIMATE GENERALIZATIONS, AND PROBABLE EVIDENCE.
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Mr. De Morgan, in his Formal Logic, makes the just remark, that from two such premises as Most A are B, and Most A are C, we may infer with certainty that some B are C. But this is the utmost limit of the conclusions which can be drawn from two approximate generalizations, when the precise degree of their approximation to universality is unknown or undefined.