I. M.
I approve of this axiom of the Schoolmen, “Nihil est in intellectu quod non prius fuit in sensu.”[168] I wish they had stuck to it. It had never taught them the doctrine of abstract ideas.
S. G.
“Nihil dat quod non habet,” or, the effect is contained in the cause, is an axiom I do not understand or believe to be true.
E.
Whoever shall cast his eyes on the writings of old or new philosophers, and see the noise is made about formal and objective Being, Will, &c.
G.
Absurd to argue the existence of God from his idea. We have no idea of God. 'Tis impossible[169].