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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.
ly agrcc: But then ic does not appear
to me that chole Notions are form d By
Abstraction in the manner premiled. Vni-
versalitr, (0 tar as I can comprehend nOc
consiltins in the absolure, politire N-
cure or Conception ot aur thins, but
in the relation it bcars to the larticu-
lars lignitied or represented by it: By
vertue:hereot it is thac chings, Names
OrNocions, being in ther own Nature
Particular arc render d Universal. Thus
WhenIdemonstrate anr Propositioncon-
cernins Triangles, it is to bc supposcd
thac Phare in vieu che universal Idca
et a Frianole; Wwhich oughEnOctO DC
understood as it I con d trame an Idca
OF a Friangle wtrich as nerther Equi-
lateral nor Scalenon, eoc. Buc onty
chac che particular Friansle I consider.
Whecher ot chIS OF ChaL CORE IC MaLtCES
not, does cquallr Aand For and repre
sent all Rectilincar Triangles Wrhacio-
erer, and is in that sense 2niversal. AII
Wvhich scems veer Plain and not to in
clude any Difficuler in II.
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