uished? 3. To what is _actual_ opposed? 4. What shades of
difference may be pointed out between the four words _actual_, _real_,
_developed_, and _positive_?
EXAMPLES.
In ---- life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to
us.
If there was any trouble, ---- or impending, affecting those she had
served, her place was with them.
This was regarded as proof ---- of conspiracy.
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REASON, _v._ (page 302).
QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to _reason_ about a matter? 2. From what is _argue_
derived, and what does it mean? 3. What is it to _demonstrate_? to
_prove_? How do these two words agree and differ?
EXAMPLES.
There are two ways of reaching truth: by ----ing it out and by
feeling it out.
In ----ing, too, the person owned his skill,
For e'en tho vanquished, he could ---- still.
A matter of fact may be ----ed by adequate evidence; only a
mathematical proposition can be ----ed.
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REASON, _n._ (page 302).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does _cause_ differ from _reason_ in the strict sense of each of
the two words? 2. How is _reason_ often used so as to be a partial
equivalent of _cause_?
EXAMPLES.
No one is at liberty to speak ill of another without a justifiable
----, even tho he knows he is speaking truth.
I am not only witty myself, but the ---- that wit is in other men.
Necessity is the ---- of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Alas! how light a ---- may move
Dissension between hearts that love!
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REASONING (page 303).
QUESTIONS.
1. What do _argumentation_ and _debate_ ordinarily imply? 2. How does
_reasoning_ differ from both the above words in this respect? 3. To what
kind of _reasoning_ were _argument_ and _argumentation_ formerly
restricted? How widely are the words now applied? 4. How do _argument_
and _argumentation_ compare with _reasoning_ as regards logical form?
EXAMPLES.
All ----, Inductive or Deductive, is a reaching of the unknown
through the known; and where nothing unknown is reached there is no
----.
Early at Bus'ness, and at Hazard late,
Mad at a fox-chase, wise at a ----.
If thou continuest to take delight in idle ----, thou mayest be
qualified to combat with the sophists, but never know how to live
with men.
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