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v. Ve ^ a reru m perception detorqneat. As«c e said, “ If I cannot doubt with,, ^ c yes open, let me shut them: if Itc Cann °t believe things false, let me sup-H^ofe them false against my belief” Is it-.0ut PWn here, he only said he doubted, with-fiot a ble to do so ? Those things couldf 1 called prejudices, with which he waslo take this method. A man should0 p ^oubt where he is forced to feign causes^ Qubting (b). And in the Synopsis of his\^ ltat i° ns > %s, (speaking of the ex-World the bodies of men, and other§ s of that nature) De quibm nemo un-^fanœ mentis ferio dubitavit. The other^ Reason he assigns for universal doubting yvery worst, I think, that could be giv-i e ' lhe supposition, to wit, that God mayi t ^ a ^ c ious and a deceiver, ppuid autem nuncf u Ppono deceptorem aliquem potentijfimum,'fifas eji ita dicere, malignum i data opera

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?Hc! ; S j. an y one doubts that he ma y become more certain ,he ^ ° rce d to feign causes (nay to deceive himself) thattsi; s ^ doubts I afic if he can become more certain , byn et ”°d than he was before ? Or if being reduced toits Ce ®ty of such a method before he can doubt, bee f the greatest mark of certainty.

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