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... doctrine , and make way for themselves and their opinions ; but without any great advantage from the disturbance ; as they did not effectively enlarge philos- ophy and arts by practical works , but only endeavored to substitute new ...
... doctrine , and make way for themselves and their opinions ; but without any great advantage from the disturbance ; as they did not effectively enlarge philos- ophy and arts by practical works , but only endeavored to substitute new ...
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... doctrine , but to fix an extensive basis for the service of human nature . 2. That , for their own sakes , they lay aside the zeal and prejudices of opinions , and endeavor the com- mon good ; and that being , by our assistance , freed ...
... doctrine , but to fix an extensive basis for the service of human nature . 2. That , for their own sakes , they lay aside the zeal and prejudices of opinions , and endeavor the com- mon good ; and that being , by our assistance , freed ...
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... doctrine of the last two paragraphs may appear contradictory to the opinion of some philosophers , who maintain the infallibility of the senses , as well as of reason ; but the dispute perhaps turns rather upon words than things ...
... doctrine of the last two paragraphs may appear contradictory to the opinion of some philosophers , who maintain the infallibility of the senses , as well as of reason ; but the dispute perhaps turns rather upon words than things ...
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... doctrine of purging the understanding requires three kinds of confutations , to fit it for the investigation of truth , viz .; the confutation of philosophies , the confutation of demon- strations , and the confutation of the natural ...
... doctrine of purging the understanding requires three kinds of confutations , to fit it for the investigation of truth , viz .; the confutation of philosophies , the confutation of demon- strations , and the confutation of the natural ...
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... doctrine which does not assert that nothing is knowable ; but only that things cannot be known except in a certain order and method : while it allows particular degrees of certainty , for the sake of commodiousness and use , until the ...
... doctrine which does not assert that nothing is knowable ; but only that things cannot be known except in a certain order and method : while it allows particular degrees of certainty , for the sake of commodiousness and use , until the ...
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