2. General truths hardly to be understood, but in verbal propositions.
All the knowledge we have, being only of
particular or general truths, it is evident that whatever may be done in the former of these, the latter, which is that
which with reason is most sought after, can never be well made known, and is very seldom apprehended, but as
conceived and expressed in words. It is not, therefore, out of our way, in the examination of our knowledge, to
inquire into the truth and certainty of universal propositions.
