Proprietates reales rerum omnium in Deo, tam corporum quum spirituum continentur. Clerici, Log. cap. 8.
Let my adversaries answer any one of mine, I'll yield. If I don't answer every one of theirs, I'll yield.
The loss of the excuse[250] may hurt Transubstantiation, but not the Trinity.
We need not strain our imaginations to conceive such little things. Bigger may do as well for infinitesimals, since the integer must be an infinite.
Evident yt wch has an infinite number of parts must be infinite.
Qu. Whether extension be resoluble into points it does not consist of?
Nor can it be objected that we reason about numbers, wch are only words & not ideas[251]; for these infinitesimals are words of no use, if not supposed to stand for ideas.
Axiom. No reasoning about things whereof we have no idea. Therefore no reasoning about infinitesimals.
Much less infinitesimals of infinitesimals, &c.