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The Analyst.

the ſame Rules of Logic do not obtain in both Caſes? And whether we have not a right to expect and demand the ſame Evidence in both?

Qu. 43. Whether an Algebraiſt, Fluxioniſt, Geometrician or Demonſtrator of any kind can expect indulgence for obſcure Principles or incorrect Reaſonings? And whether an Algebraical Note or Species can at the end of a Proceſs be interpreted in a Senſe, which could not have been ſubſtituted for it at the beginning? Or whether any particular Suppoſition can come under a general Caſe which doth not conſiſt with the reaſoning thereof?

Qu. 44. Whether the Difference between a mere Computer and a Man of Science be not, that the one computes on Principles clearly conceived, and by Rules evidently demonſtrated, whereas the other doth not?

Qu. 45. Whether, although Geometry be a Science, and Algebra allowed to be a Science, and the Analytical a moſt excel-

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