The percept is the reality. It is not in propositional form. But the most immediate judgment concerning it is abstract. It is therefore essentially unlike the reality, although it must be accepted as true to that reality. Its truth consists in the fact that it is impossible to correct it, and in the fact that it only professes to consider one aspect of the percept.
Still, it will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.
We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.
Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.
A hypothesis is something which looks as if it might be true and were true, and which is capable of verification or refutation by comparison with facts.