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5.132

If p follows from q, I can conclude from q to p; infer p from q.

The method of inference is to be understood from the two propositions alone.

Only they themselves can justify the inference.

Laws of inference, which -- as in Frege and Russell -- are to justify the conclusions, are senseless and would be superfluous.

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