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Rh full liberty to make a Character denote, either a poitive or a negative Quantity, or nothing at all, we may therefore in a geometrical Cae, limited by Hypothees and Reaonings from particular Properties and Relations of Figures, claim the ame Licence?

Qu. 28. Whether the Shifting of the Hypotheis, or (as we may call it) the fallacia Suppoitionis be not a Sophim, that far and wide infects the modern Reaonings, both in the mechanical Philoophy and in the abtrue and fine Geometry? Qu. 29. Whether we can form an Idea or Notion of Velocity ditinct from and excluive of its Meaures, as we can of Heat ditinct from and excluive of the Degrees on the Thermometer, by which it is meaured? And whether this be not uppoed in the Reaonings of modern Analyts?

Qu. 30. Whether Motion can be conceived in a Point of Space? And if Rh