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Rh Quotients? And yet whether uch Coefficient can be interpreted by o or nothing? Or whether any one will ay, that if the Equation 2 × o = 5 × o, be divided by o, the Quotients on both Sides are equal? Whether therefore a Cae may not be general with repect to all Quantities, and yet not extend to Nothings, or include the Cae of Nothing? And whether the bringing Nothing under the Notion of Quantity may not have betrayed Men into fale Reaoning? Qu. 41. Whether in the mot general Reaonings about Equalities and Proportions, Men may not demontrate as well as in Geometry? Whether in uch Demontrations, they are not obliged to the ame trict Reaoning as in Geometry? And whether uch their Reaonings are not deduced from the ame Axioms with thoe in Geometry? Whether therefore Algebra be not as truly a Science as Geometry? Qu. 42. Whether Men may not reaon in Species as well as in Words? Whether Rh