when verbal. 8, 9. Instance in gold. 11, 12. The qualities, which make 14. What is requisite for our 1. They are self-evident. 3. Self-evidence not peculiar to received axioms. diversity, all propositions 6. Thirdly, in other relations 19. Little use of these maxims, 20. Their use dangerous, where CHAP. VIII. Of trifling propositions. SECT. 1. Some propositions bring no increase to our know- 2, 3. As, first, identical propo- sitions. 4. Secondly, when a part of 11. Thirdly, using words va- 2. Man knows that he him- 3. He knows also, that no- 4. That eternal being must II, 12. Therefore there has been 14. Not material, first, because 2. It is to supply the want of our own experience, or 5. In this all the arguments, 6. They being capable of |