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... doubt there is something of ac- cident ( as we call it ) and luck as well in what men think as in what they do or say . But for this acci- dent which I speak of , I wish that if there be any good in what I have to offer , it may be ...
... doubt there is something of ac- cident ( as we call it ) and luck as well in what men think as in what they do or say . But for this acci- dent which I speak of , I wish that if there be any good in what I have to offer , it may be ...
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... doubt the greatest wits in each successive age have been forced out of their own course ; men of capacity and intellect above the vulgar having been fain , for reputation's sake , to bow to the judgment of the 28 PREFACE .
... doubt the greatest wits in each successive age have been forced out of their own course ; men of capacity and intellect above the vulgar having been fain , for reputation's sake , to bow to the judgment of the 28 PREFACE .
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... great labours . We have no reason to be ashamed of the discoveries which have been made , and no doubt the ancients proved themselves in everything that turns on wit and abstract meditation , wonderful men . But as in former 32 PREFACE .
... great labours . We have no reason to be ashamed of the discoveries which have been made , and no doubt the ancients proved themselves in everything that turns on wit and abstract meditation , wonderful men . But as in former 32 PREFACE .
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... doubt that things which agree in a middle term agree with one another ( which is a proposition of mathematical certainty ) , yet it leaves an opening for deception ; which is this . The syllogism consists of propositions ; propositions ...
... doubt that things which agree in a middle term agree with one another ( which is a proposition of mathematical certainty ) , yet it leaves an opening for deception ; which is this . The syllogism consists of propositions ; propositions ...
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... doubt , but precipitate ; and one which will never lead to na- ture , though it offers an easy and ready way to dis- putation . Now my plan is to proceed regularly and gradually from one axiom to another , so that the most general are ...
... doubt , but precipitate ; and one which will never lead to na- ture , though it offers an easy and ready way to dis- putation . Now my plan is to proceed regularly and gradually from one axiom to another , so that the most general are ...
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