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Beginning Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
- By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have…
- And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the significations…
- The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without…
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