[102] This is only another instance of what MR. VENN (_Empirical Logic_, p. 56) has wittily alluded to as "screwing up the cause and the effect into close juxtaposition." [103] Simplicius says [Greek: euthys meta to prooimion]; see DIELS, _Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker_ (Berlin, 1903), p. 347, l. 18. [104] Fr. 2, DIELS. [105] See DIELS, _Fragmente der Vorsokratiker_, p. 343, l. 2; p. 344, l. 27. [106] 320 C f. [107] Considerations of space as well as circumstances attending the immediate preparation of this discussion for the press have precluded any but the most general and casual reference to the recent literature of the subject. Much of this literature only imperfectly distinguishes the logical and psychological points of view, so that critical reference to it, unaccompanied by detailed restatement and analysis of the positions criticised, would be useless. [108] In order to avoid complicating the problems, we have here employed the common notion that the physical world, physical object, and property may be taken for granted as possible adequate contents of judgment, and that the problem is only as to the objectivity of economic and ethical contents. Of course we may, in the end, come to believe that the "physical" object is itself an economic construct, in the large sense of "economic;" that is, an instrument of an effective or successful experience. Thus in terms of the illustration used above, in the attitude of entertaining in a general way the plan of building a house _of some sort or other_, one may have before him various building materials the ascertained qualities of which are, it may be, socially recognized as in a general way fitting them for such a use. There is doubtless so much of real foundation for the common notion here referred to. But along with the _definition_ of the plan in ethical and economic judgment, along with the determination actually to build a house, and a house of a certain specific kind, must go _further_ determination of the means in their physical aspects, a determination which all the while reacts into the process of determination of the end. See below, p. 246, note 3. [109] In the moral life, as elsewhere, the distinction of deduction and induction is one of degree. There is but one _type_ or _method_ of inference, though some inferences may approach more closely than do others the limit of pure "subsumption." [110] See III below.