The Port Royal Art of Thinking: In Four Parts. Of reflections upon ideas, or upon the first operation of the mind, which is called apprehension, &c. Of considerations of men about proper judgments,&c. Of the nature and various kinds of reasoning, &c. Of the most profitable method for demonstrating or illustrating any truth, &c. I.. II.. III.. IV. |
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... judge of the truth of things by the tone of the Voice ; he that talks smoothly and gravely , speaks reason ; he that cannot readily explain himself , and seems to be in a heat , must be in the wrong ; and more than this they know not ...
... judge of the truth of things by the tone of the Voice ; he that talks smoothly and gravely , speaks reason ; he that cannot readily explain himself , and seems to be in a heat , must be in the wrong ; and more than this they know not ...
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... proceed not from this Principle , as being rather caused by the precipitation of the Brain , and through defect of Consideration ; hence they judge rashly of what they only know obscurely and confusedly . DISCOURSE I.
... proceed not from this Principle , as being rather caused by the precipitation of the Brain , and through defect of Consideration ; hence they judge rashly of what they only know obscurely and confusedly . DISCOURSE I.
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... judge aright . Alas ! we are full of ignorance and error ; and yet it is the most difficult labour in the world to draw from the lips of men such a confession as this , I am deceived , I am at a stand ; though so just and so conformable ...
... judge aright . Alas ! we are full of ignorance and error ; and yet it is the most difficult labour in the world to draw from the lips of men such a confession as this , I am deceived , I am at a stand ; though so just and so conformable ...
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... judge of the sciences by logic , and retain logic in his memory by the help of the sciences . This variety therefore is so far from being a means of obscuring these precepts , that nothing can contribute more to brighten and explain ...
... judge of the sciences by logic , and retain logic in his memory by the help of the sciences . This variety therefore is so far from being a means of obscuring these precepts , that nothing can contribute more to brighten and explain ...
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... judge to be false . For it does not seem contrary to reason , that reason should sub- mit to authority in sciences ... judges , and that they will acknowledge , that there is nothing but a sincere desire to contribute to the public good ...
... judge to be false . For it does not seem contrary to reason , that reason should sub- mit to authority in sciences ... judges , and that they will acknowledge , that there is nothing but a sincere desire to contribute to the public good ...
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