8. These axioms do not much influence our other knowledge.
In the next place let us consider, what influence
these received maxims have upon the other parts of our knowledge. The rules established in the schools, that all
reasonings are Ex præognitis et præconcessis, seem to lay the foundation of all other knowledge in these
maxims, and to suppose them to be præcognita. Whereby, I think, are meant these two things: first, that these
axioms are those truths that are first known to the mind; and, secondly, that upon them the other parts of our
knowledge depend.
