ABSTRACT
We have already dealt, not merely with the formation of universal judgments, but with their systematic connection. But in discussing the nexus of general truths our principal aim was to show the increase of certainty derived from mutual support. We have now to discuss more carefully the nature of the connections instituted by reflection on, and comparison of, generalisations, in order to see how far we may be said not merely (as Lotze puts it) to calculate the course of the universe but also to explain it.
