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Wherein the chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences, with the Grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion, are inquir'd into, fol. 20

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  1. Introduction.
  2. to look a licele into his omn Thoughs
  3. and there cey Whether hehas, or can at-
  4. tain eo hare, an Idca thac Mall corre-
  5. spond with che description chat is herc
  6. siren oF che General Idea ot a Triangle,
  7. avtrich 1S, neither Oblique nor Rectanole,
  8. Fiquilaterat, Lquicrural nor Scalenon, but
  9. alt and none of these at once?
  10. 5 24. Much is here said of the Diti-
  11. culer chac abstraet Ideas carey wich
  12. them, and che Pams and Still requIsIte
  13. co the tormine chem. And it iS On aII
  14. Flands aorced thac chere is necd ot great
  15. Toil and Labour ot cheMind, tOFman
  16. cipatcour Thonghes from paticular Ob.
  17. jects, and caise them to those Sublime
  18. Speculations thac are convertant about
  19. abscract Idcas. From all irtrich che na-
  20. cural Consequence Moud seem to bC,
  21. thac (0 Disticule a thing as che formino
  22. absracc Idcas Wras notnecessarr ForCom
  23. munication, Wtuch is (0 caly and tami
  24. liar Eo alI TOrtS OF Men. But We arc told
  25. it ther scem obrious andealr io GTrown
  26. 3
  27. Men, Lis onty because by constant and fa-
  28. miliar use they are made so. Noir Lroud
  29. Tair

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Wherein the chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences, with the Grounds of Scepticism, Atheism, and Irreligion, are inquir'd into, fol. 20. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797331344:0032?run=74