Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth: With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error, in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as Well as in the Sciences |
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... neral Council . Here let it be noted , that when two or more words fignify the fame Thing , as Wave and Bil- low , Mead and Meadow , they are ufually called fynonymous Words : But it feems very strange , that Words which are directly ...
... neral Council . Here let it be noted , that when two or more words fignify the fame Thing , as Wave and Bil- low , Mead and Meadow , they are ufually called fynonymous Words : But it feems very strange , that Words which are directly ...
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... neral Natures , nor do we know what are the in- ward and prime Diftinctions between all the par- ticular Kinds or Species in the Vegetable , Animal , Mineral , Metallick , or Liquid World of Things . See Philofoph . Effays . Eff . xi ...
... neral Natures , nor do we know what are the in- ward and prime Diftinctions between all the par- ticular Kinds or Species in the Vegetable , Animal , Mineral , Metallick , or Liquid World of Things . See Philofoph . Effays . Eff . xi ...
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... all Things under ge- neral and Special Heads ,, it renders the Nature , or any of the Properties , Powers , and Ufes of a Thing more Part I more easy to be found out , when C. VI . S. 13. The right Ufe of Reason . 137.
... all Things under ge- neral and Special Heads ,, it renders the Nature , or any of the Properties , Powers , and Ufes of a Thing more Part I more easy to be found out , when C. VI . S. 13. The right Ufe of Reason . 137.
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... neral Idea have the fame Predicate belonging to them without any Exception whatsoever ; or when the Predicate is fo effential to the universal Sub- ject , that it deftroys the very Nature of the Sub- ject to be without it ; as , all ...
... neral Idea have the fame Predicate belonging to them without any Exception whatsoever ; or when the Predicate is fo effential to the universal Sub- ject , that it deftroys the very Nature of the Sub- ject to be without it ; as , all ...
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... neral ? May I not affirm , that every unknown Spe- . cies of Animals has inward Springs of Motion , be- caufe I have a clear Idea that these inward Springs belong to an Animal in general ? Answer . All thofe fuppofed unknown Parts , Pro ...
... neral ? May I not affirm , that every unknown Spe- . cies of Animals has inward Springs of Motion , be- caufe I have a clear Idea that these inward Springs belong to an Animal in general ? Answer . All thofe fuppofed unknown Parts , Pro ...
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