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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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Perpendicular, Llorizontal or Oblique,
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cernins ic holds cqually truc. AS does
the ocher ot everr particular Excension,
it matters noc Whether Linc, Surtaco
Or Solid, Wrhecher ot chis or thac Mag
nicude or Figure, _c.
5 12. BY obserrins ho Ideas be-
come general, re mas the becter
judge hor Words are made (0. And
here it is to bc noced that Ido noc de
ny ablolucely cherc arc general Idcas.
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generat Ideas: For in the Pallages we
hare uoced Wrherem there is mention
Ot general Idcas, ic is alivars supposed
thac ther arc Formed by abstraction, at-
ter themannerset torch in Sect. VIII and
TX. No il vre will annex a meanins
to our Words, and speak ouls ot Wtrat
Wwe can conccire, Ibeliere we Mall ac-
bnoledse, thac an Idea, Which consi-
der d in ic selt is parcicular, becomes
Seneral, by beins made to represent or
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