It is no act of insight, intuition, which makes us use the rule as we
do at the particular
stage || point of the series.
It would be less confusing to call it an act of decision, though this
too is misleading, for nothing like an act of decision must take place,
but possibly just an act of writing or speaking.
And the mistake which we here and in a thousand similar cases are
inclined to make is labelled by the word “to make” as we
have used it in the sentence, “It is no act of insight
which makes us use the rule as we do,” because there is an idea
that
103.
“something
must make us” do what we do.
And this again joins on to the confusion between cause and
reason.
We need have no reason to follow the rule as we
do.
The chain of reasons has an end.