Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 11. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 519
... itself is certainly neither a sophism nor a petitio principii . Thofe who defend Des Cartes affert , and there is no reafon to doubt the truth of their affertion , that his only view in urging fuch an argument was not to prove the truth ...
... itself is certainly neither a sophism nor a petitio principii . Thofe who defend Des Cartes affert , and there is no reafon to doubt the truth of their affertion , that his only view in urging fuch an argument was not to prove the truth ...
Page 539
... itself , must be evident from this confi- deration , that folidity is the fame in all bodies , and incapable of producing by itself any other effect than that of excluding from the place occupied by it every other folid fubftance . It ...
... itself , must be evident from this confi- deration , that folidity is the fame in all bodies , and incapable of producing by itself any other effect than that of excluding from the place occupied by it every other folid fubftance . It ...
Page 601
... itself , is fimple extorts the affent even of those who upon other occa- and uniform and univerfal , without any poffible diffe- fions labour to obfcure it . It is confeffed by Dr tion of the rence , difformity , or variety , whatsoever ...
... itself , is fimple extorts the affent even of those who upon other occa- and uniform and univerfal , without any poffible diffe- fions labour to obfcure it . It is confeffed by Dr tion of the rence , difformity , or variety , whatsoever ...
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