... themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry : and I think there is this one unerring mark of it, viz., the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will... An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 248by John Locke - 1813Full view - About this book
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