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MAXIMS Construction of. 2
and applied tom all subjects [viz: of the Science in question] they are not true at all
in an universal proportion as these are, a single exception not incorporated into it destroys the truth
If they are false in part, they are false altogether: since [] the universality of their
truth [is that forms] the essence of their character.
The form which they bear is that of universality: and an universal proposition which is not true always, is true never. If by way of obviating this objection, their pretended universality is made brought down to shrink to generality if in <add>by such case means</add> they cease to be false, they cease to be instructive: for much dependence instruction is not to be placed in gained from a proposition, which being sometimes true & sometimes false, you are still turned to seek [which it is] when you would make use of it whether it be the one or t'other.
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