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Scepsis scientifica: or, confest ignorance, the way to science; in an essay of the vanity of dogmatizing, and confident opinion / With a reply to the exceptions of the learned Thomas Albius [i.e. pseud. of Thomas White].

  • Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680
Date:
1665
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Credit: Scepsis scientifica: or, confest ignorance, the way to science; in an essay of the vanity of dogmatizing, and confident opinion / With a reply to the exceptions of the learned Thomas Albius [i.e. pseud. of Thomas White]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Author would do well to tell us. Some Principles indeed are neceflary , and without them nothing can be inquired or determin’d: But fuch are common to all Philefophers , and not peculiarly Ariftotle’s. Thofe that admit vacuities, think there can be no action without chem; holding it impoffible there fhould be moré- en in abfolute plenos And we have but our Author’s bare affertion again{e their arguments. The Cartefian vortices will ferve to account for the Phe- nomena, and teach a way of Theory not unferviceable to experiment, And for the Salvo of Ariftotle’s credit in thofe contradi@ory paflages we meet in his Writings 3 véz, that they are the fayings of orbers, ic feems to me an arbitrary Chift and evafion : Since we find them in his Difcourfes without mention of any fuch matter. And if it be con- fet his cuftom to infere forrein Doctrines and Sayings in- to his Works, without any intimation to diftinguifh them from his ews; who then can know when ‘drifforle {peaks himfelf, or when he fpeaks the words and fenfe of o- thers 2 eee RE EEE eS SR 4. Caput vicefimum manifeftam reddit eminentiant Peripatetices fupra reliquas Methods --- pag, 127- Sd aes ‘N that Chapter I impugn not Arifforle’s Philofophy , but had concluded my Reflections in the former, , Canfali- ties are fart found out by concomitancy , as 1 intimated. And our experience of the dependence of onc, and indepen- dence of the other fhews which is the Effect, and which the Caufe, Definitions cannot difcover Caufalities, for they are formed after the Caxfality is known, So that in our Authors inftance, a man cannot know beat to be the A»