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# Title: Wherein the chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences, with the Grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion, are inquir'd into (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 52)
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Ineroduction.
anticipate my Delion, br caking notice
Ot Wvhac scems to hare had a chiet Dart
in renderins Speculation intricace and
perplex d, and to hare occasion d innu-
merable Frrorsand Dificulcies in almos
aII Parts OF RnoWvlege. And chaE 1S
the opinion thac the Mind hach a pou-
ex oF tramins Abstract Ideas or Noci-
ons OF Things. IIC Wvho IS NOC a Per-
Feet Stranger to che Writings and Dis-
puces oF Philosophers, must necds ac-
bnomlese thac no Imall part ot chem
are spent about abstract Idcas. These
arc, in a more especial manner, choughE
cobctheobject ot choleSciences Wrtich
30 by thename ot Logie and Metaphy-
sics, and ot all chat Wrhuch passes under
the NTocion ot che most abstracted and
Sublime Learnino, in aIl erhrich one MaII
(carce find any Ouection handled insuch
a manner, a5 docs not suppose cheir Lx-
iltence in the Mind, and thac iE IS Wvell
acquainted Wich them.
67. It is aorced on aIl hands, chac
the Oualities or Modes ot chinss donc-
ver really exist cach ot chem apart by