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Horace Mann: “I affirm, then, that a knowledge of the premises is indispensable to a judgment on the conclusion.”

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I affirm, then, that a knowledge of the premises is indispensable to a judgment on the conclusion.
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Horace Mann
Free Soil · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Mann asserts that understanding the premises is essential for evaluating conclusions.

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