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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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Introduction.
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ticular Idcas, just as ther receire them
Erom cheir Senses.. Ther arc che best
oF em cied up wichin those narron
Bounds, and hare noc (25 I chink)
chc Laculer to enlarse em br any
kind ot Abstraction. Fssay on Hlum.
Vnderst. B. 2. C. TT. 8 20 and IT. L
readils aorec with chis Lcarned Author.
thacche Faculties ot Bruces can by no
means accain eo Abstraction. Buc then
it this be made che distinguistuins pro-
perer ot that Sorc Ot Animals, I Fcar
2 sreat mans ot chosc chac pass for Men
must bc reckon d into cheir number.
The reason thac ishere allign d whry ve
hare no Grounds to think Brutes have
AbCract general Ideas, is that Wc ob.
Terre in emno ulc ot Words or any o.
tcher general Signs; wtuch is built on
this Suppolicion, 2iz. thac che makins
usc of Words, implys the harins gene-
ral Ideas. From Which ic Follorro, chac
Men Wvho ule Lansuase arc ablc to AB.
Aracc or Generalize cheir Idcas. That
chis 15 che Sensc and Arguins OF thc
Auchor Will Furcher appear by his an-
Tiverine