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... thefe notions are made difficult to others apprehenfions in my way of treating them : fo it is , that my meaning , I find , is often miftaken , and I have not the good luck to be every where rightly understood . There are fo many ...
... thefe notions are made difficult to others apprehenfions in my way of treating them : fo it is , that my meaning , I find , is often miftaken , and I have not the good luck to be every where rightly understood . There are fo many ...
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... thefe univerfal maxims . 20. One and one equal to two , & c . not general , nor ufeful , answered . 21. Thefe maxims not being known fometimes till pro- pofed , proves them not in- nate . 22. Implicitly known before propofing ...
... thefe univerfal maxims . 20. One and one equal to two , & c . not general , nor ufeful , answered . 21. Thefe maxims not being known fometimes till pro- pofed , proves them not in- nate . 22. Implicitly known before propofing ...
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... thefe ideas , at last , come to be only common notions of things , which we must make use of in our reafening . And to the like purpose in other places . Whether , therefore , at laft , your lordship will refolve , that it is new or no ...
... thefe ideas , at last , come to be only common notions of things , which we must make use of in our reafening . And to the like purpose in other places . Whether , therefore , at laft , your lordship will refolve , that it is new or no ...
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... thefe two propofitions , " what- foever is , is ; " and " it is impoflible for the fame thing to be , and not to be , " are by nature imprinted , children cannot be ignorant of them ; infants , and all that have fouls , muft neceffarily ...
... thefe two propofitions , " what- foever is , is ; " and " it is impoflible for the fame thing to be , and not to be , " are by nature imprinted , children cannot be ignorant of them ; infants , and all that have fouls , muft neceffarily ...
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