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... things obscure are not therefore sacred : and that is no more a crime , to canvass and detect unsound principles or ... thing in religion which they admit in human learning ? And is it not a proper way to abate the pride and dis- T ...
... things obscure are not therefore sacred : and that is no more a crime , to canvass and detect unsound principles or ... thing in religion which they admit in human learning ? And is it not a proper way to abate the pride and dis- T ...
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... thing , either in mathematics , or in any other part of learning ; what avails it , or in- deed what right hath any ... things ; whence you raise topics for invective : but I say there are certain mathematicians , who are known to be so ...
... thing , either in mathematics , or in any other part of learning ; what avails it , or in- deed what right hath any ... things ; whence you raise topics for invective : but I say there are certain mathematicians , who are known to be so ...
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... thing . He need not be far gone in geometry to know , that obscure principles are not to be admitted in demon ... things early ad- mitted by repetition become familiar : and this fami- liarity at length passeth for evidence . Now ...
... thing . He need not be far gone in geometry to know , that obscure principles are not to be admitted in demon ... things early ad- mitted by repetition become familiar : and this fami- liarity at length passeth for evidence . Now ...
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... thing aimed at by supposing the evanescence . Say whether this be not the truth of the case ? Whether the former expression is not to be reduced to the latter ? And whether this can possibly be done so long as o is supposed a real ...
... thing aimed at by supposing the evanescence . Say whether this be not the truth of the case ? Whether the former expression is not to be reduced to the latter ? And whether this can possibly be done so long as o is supposed a real ...
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... things from the obscure , to distinguish the real prin- ciples , whereon truths rest and whence they are derived , and to proportion the just measures of assent according to the various degrees of evidence , be a useless or un- worthy ...
... things from the obscure , to distinguish the real prin- ciples , whereon truths rest and whence they are derived , and to proportion the just measures of assent according to the various degrees of evidence , be a useless or un- worthy ...
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