Theoric Transformation

…every difficult mathematical theorem evidently involves some transformation of thought of which formal logic can take no account, although it is perfectly evident and undeniable, when it is...

It is not quite so true as Kant thought it to be that deduction is purely explicative; but the amplificative element that a certain kind of deduction, called theo’ric transformation,...

[Theō’ric transformation] is an operation of necessary, or rather, of compulsive reasoning, (granted the premisses the interpreter of the reasoning is compelled to assent to the conclusion,) which...