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1 I | aright and of distinguishing truth from error, which is properly 2 I | made in the search after truth, and cannot help entertaining 3 I | discoursing with an appearance of truth on all matters, and commands 4 I | remainder does not represent the truth, and that such as regulate 5 I | to persuade others of the truth of what they lay down, though 6 I | I should find much more truth in the reasonings of each 7 I | regard to nothing of the truth of which I had been persuaded 8 II | are farther removed from truth than the simple inferences 9 II | of discriminating between truth and error, and by whom they 10 II | suffrages is no guarantee of truth where it is at all of difficult 11 II | for the deduction of one truth from another. ~And I had 12 II | who have hitherto sought truth in the sciences, the mathematicians 13 II | love and nourishment of truth, and to a distaste for all 14 II | truths, and that thus each truth discovered was a rule available 15 II | considered that, as the truth on any particular point 16 II | one whoever apprehends the truth, knows all that on that ~ 17 III| at less distance from the truth than if, having chosen one 18 III| able in the knowledge of truth, on the principles of the 19 III| by which to distinguish truth from error, I could not 20 III| almost mathematical: the truth of this will be manifest 21 III| progress in the knowledge of truth, than I might, perhaps, 22 IV | solely to the search after truth, I thought that a procedure 23 IV | awake, had in them no more truth than the illusions of my 24 IV | as I observed that this truth, I think, therefore I am ( 25 IV | thought to doubt of the truth of other things, it most 26 IV | what is essential I to the truth and certainty of a proposition; 27 IV | gives me assurance of their truth beyond this, that I see 28 IV | difficulty in knowing this truth, and even also in knowing 29 IV | them not intelligible. ~The truth of this is sufficiently 30 IV | other propositions, of the truth of which they deem themselves 31 IV | proceed from God, than that truth or perfection should proceed 32 IV | easily understand that the truth of the thoughts we experience 33 IV | not militate against its truth; and as for the most ordinary 34 IV | properly to suspect the truth of the ideas of sense; for 35 IV | ourselves to be persuaded of the truth of anything unless on the 36 IV | notions contain in them some truth; for otherwise it could 37 IV | imperfection, those possessing truth must infallibly be found 38 V | denominated, since it is in truth only an artery, which, taking 39 VI | had persuaded me of its truth; and this led me to fear 40 VI | I had departed from the truth, notwithstanding the great 41 VI | all who are virtuous in truth, and not merely in appearance, 42 VI | should have tested their truth, and to bestow the same 43 VI | advantage to posterity. ~And in truth, I am quite willing it should 44 VI | those who gradually discover truth in the sciences, as with 45 VI | reaching the knowledge of truth, and he is overcome in fight 46 VI | never observed that any truth before unknown has been 47 VI | satisfied with the appearance of truth, which can be found without 48 VI | matters, than by seeking the truth itself which unfolds itself 49 VI | difficult to disentangle the truth from its adjuncts-besides, 50 VI | easily determine where the truth lies; for I do not engage 51 VI | less capable of perceiving truth in very proportion as they 52 VI | has convinced me of their truth. ~Though artisans may not