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The reverse of ye Principle introduced scepticism.
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N. B. On my Principles there is a reality: there are things: there is a rerum natura.
Mem. The surds, doubling the cube, &c.
We think that if just made to see we should judge of the distance & magnitude of things as we do now; but this is false. So also wt we think so positively of the situation of objects.
Hays's, Keill's[243], &c. method of proving the infinitesimals of the 3d order absurd, & perfectly contradictions.
Angles of contact, & verily all angles comprehended by a right line & a curve, cannot be measur'd, the arches intercepted not being similar.