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（4） Again, one may also study the cause of Unrestraint
scientifically,1
thus: In a practical syllogism, the major premise is an opinion, while the minor premise
deals with particular things, which are the province of perception. Now when the two
premises are combined, just as in theoretic reasoning the mind is compelled to affirm the
resulting conclusion, so in the case of practical premises you are forced at once to do
it. For example, given the premises ‘All sweet things ought to be
tasted’ and ‘Yonder thing is sweet’—a particular
instance of the general class—, you are bound, if able and not prevented,
immediately to taste the thing.
1 i.e., in this case, psychologically: lit. ‘with reference to its nature.’ Cf. 8.1.6, 9.7.2, 9.9.7.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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