Training in reasoning, however, must involve training in verification of facts before pronouncing judgement.

Yet a postulate can never be accused of being a mere sophistication, or a bar to the progress of knowledge, because it is always willing to submit to verification in the course of fresh experience, and can always be reconstructed or abandoned, should it cease to edify.

It is well adapted for following out any which, originating with private investigators, have been reduced to laws susceptible of verification by daily observation.

And the greater part of most men’s knowledge and beliefs is of this kind, taken without verification from their parents, teachers, acquaintances, books, newspapers.

" "The argument," said Thorndyke, "will be a rather long one, as the data are so numerous, and there are some points in verification on which I shall have to dwell in some detail.

A picture, for instance, may be sometimes nearer to quantitative truth, more easily remembered and more useful for purposes of argument and verification than a row of figures.

The gospel moves along the same line of self-verification with reference to all the great religions.