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Of the Improvement of our Knowledge An essay concerning human understanding | ||
2. (The occasion of that opinion.
One thing which might probably give an occasion to this way of proceeding in other sciences, was (as I suppose) the good success it seemed to have in mathematics, wherein men, being observed to attain a great certainty of knowledge, these sciences came by pre-eminence to be called Μαθήματα, and Μάθησις, learning, or things learned, thoroughly learned, as having of all others the greatest certainty, clearness, and evidence in them.
Chapter XII
Of the Improvement of our Knowledge An essay concerning human understanding | ||