13. By this they are not distinguished from other knowable truths.
In the mean time it is observable, that this
saying, that men know and assent to these maxims "when they come to the use of reason," amounts in reality of
fact to no more but this,--that they are never known nor taken notice of before the use of reason, but may
possibly be assented to some time after, during a man's life; but when is uncertain. And so may all other knowable
truths, as well as these; which therefore have no advantage nor distinction from others by this note of being
known when we come to the use of reason; nor are thereby proved to be innate, but quite the contrary.
