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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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Of the Principles
Part I.
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Sense (0 dirided. Thus limagine chc
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Limbs, or conccire che Smell ot a RolC
Withont chinking on the RO(c it sClF. S0
Far I will noc denr I can ABAraCE, it
thac may properly be called Abstraction,
Wrhich exrends ontr to che concciriIns
separatelr such Objects, a5 it is possiblc
mas really exist or bc actuallr percci-
red alunder. BuC my ConccIrInS Or
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my Thoughes any sensible Thing or Ob.
jeet distinet From the Senlation Or Per-
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the Senlation arc the lame thins, and
cannot cheretore be Abstracted From
Cach Ocher.
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