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However, in life – in the practice of the Law, for example, or in simple social relations – problems tend, for practical purposes, to involve a potentially infinite number of relevant variable factors – in the sense that there number is beyond the grasp of the finite analytical faculty at any one time. But there is a 'part' of the mind which is able to cope with these large numbers in some way – whether by some form of synthesis(?) or by approximation of synthesis, or perhaps induction, or what, I do not know – and produce workable solutions, often without the solver being directly aware of the chain of reasoning involved at the time it was being formed. One might call this 'infinite analysis' by the name 'intuition'.

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