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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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142
Of the Principles
ParET
wich regard to Idcal Knowlegc, 15 thc
Doctrine ot Abstract Ideas, such a5 It
hath been sec Forth in che Introduction.
Phe plainest chings in che World, chosc
e are mostintimately acquainced with,
and pertectir know, When ther are con-
Sider d in an ABAraCE WaY, apPCaE
Srangelr difficule and incomprehensi.
blc. Time, Place, and Motion, tatcen
in particular, Or concrete, arc What c-
very Body knows; buc haring passed
chro thc Tlands ot a Mccaphrlician,
cher become t00 Abstract and Finc, t0
Be aperehended by Men ot ordinary
Sensc. Bid rour Serrant mect rou at
Tuch a Time, in such a Place, and he MaII
qu
never Car to deliberace on the mean
ins of those Words: In concciring that
particular Time and Place, or the MO-
tion by irhich hc is to set chicher, he
Finds noc che lcast Difficuler. Buc it Time
be caken, exclusire ot aIl chole particu-
lar ActiOns and Ideas chac dirertitie che
Dar, meerir for the Continuation ot
Existence, or Duration in Abstract, then
IE Will perhaps Cirarel eren a Philoso-
pher to comprehend ic.
598. FOi