" Behold then those ideas or general notions, which it is not in my power either to contradict or examine, and by which I examine and decide in every case, insomuch that I laugh instead of answering, as often as any thing is proposed to me, which is evidently contrary to what these im¬mutable ideas represent." I shall only observe upon this passage, that the interpretation it gives of Des Cartes criterion of truth, whether
salvatore ferragamo outletjust or not, is the most intel¬ligible and the most favourable I have met with. I beg leave to mention one passage from Cicero, and to add two or three from late writers, which show that this word is not become obsolete, nor has changed its meaning. De Oratore, Lib. 3, " Omnes enim tacito quodam sensu, sine ulla arte aut ratione, in artibus ac rationibus,. recta ac parva dijudicant. Idquc cum faciant in picturis, et in signis, et in aliis operibus, ad quorum intelli- gentiam a natura minus habent instrument], turn multo ostendunt magis in verborum, numerorum, vocumque judicio; quod ea sint in communibus infixa sensibus; neque earum rerum quemquam funditus natura voluit expertem." Humes Essays and Treatises, vol. i, p. 5, "
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