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Rh Qu. 33. Whether it would not be righter to approximate fairly, than to endeavour at Accuracy by Sophims?

Qu. 34. Whether it would not be more decent to proceed by Trials and Inductions, than to pretend to demontrate by fale Principles?

Qu. 35. Whether there be not a way of arriving at Truth, although the Principles are not cientific, nor the Reaoning jut? And whether uch a way ought to be called a Knack or a Science?

Qu. 36. Whether there can be Science of the Concluion, where there is not Science of the Principles? And whether a Man can have Science of the Principles, without undertanding them? And therefore whether the Mathematicians of the preent Age act like Men of Science, in taking o much more pains to apply their Principles, than to undertand them? Rh