text:  Had he been aware that the syllogism is no distinct kind of argument otherwise than in form but is in fact _any_ argument whatever stated regularly and at full length he would have obtained a more correct view of the object of all reasoning; _which is merely to expand and unfold the assertions wrapt up as it were and implied in those with which we set out_ and to bring a person to perceive and acknowledge the full force of that which he has admitted; to contemplate it in various points of view; _to admit in one shape what he has already admitted in another_ and to give up and disallow whatever is inconsistent with it