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high is more a mode of proof as those which Logic
and Geometry afford — Why? because Logic
and Geometry to him who will bestow attention
enough, will with respect to all
matters that are within their competency
afford in all instances perfect satisfaction
Human testimony will also in some of the instances
that are within it's competence afford the same perfect satisfaction
the same quiescent feel of the mind; in other cases however,
a determination less steady, a satisfaction less
perfect, and in others again none at all.

I should say Geometry
rather: for —
Logic teaches in truth informs men
nothing but what
they know already.

Are they then susceptible of Demonstration?
Locke has said they are — Has he said
true — to know this, one must understand
what Demonstration is, we must satisfy
ourselves clearly what we mean by Demonstration:
we must examine the foundation of that
assurance, that satisfaction we find ourselves able to obtain concerning
the truth of those propositions which are
said to be demonstrated to us in Mathematics

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Montesquieu has said that before the radii
of a Circle were all equal, before there was
such a thing as a circle drawn:
which shews that Montesquieu when he talks thought
of mathematical Demonstrations, knew very little of the matter.
Locke, who when he comes to enter
upon the application of it, seems not to
have understood it very perfectly either
Locke however, might have taught him
better.

If men in their speculations, concerning the
Moral Sciences think ever to get clear of the
report & testimony of other men as a part of their foundation,
much more of the testimony of their
own senses, the and this is what they mean
by demonstration, they will find themselves
mistaken — Locke in the way he went
to work seems to have had a notion of
doing without such testimony report (at least the
report of others) and if he had gone on in
that way ever so long, would have found at
last he had done nothing.

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INTRODUCTION. Jurisprudence &c how far susceptible of De-[BR][1]-monstration

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