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lent Method, in the Application nevertheleſs of the Analyſis to Geometry, Men may not have admitted falſe Principles and wrong Methods of Reaſoning?

Qu. 46. Whether although Algebraical Reaſonings are admitted to be ever ſo juſt, when confined to Signs or Species as general Repreſentatives of Quantity, you may not nevertheleſs fall into Error, if, when you limit them to ſtand for particular things, you do not limit your ſelf to reaſon conſiſtently with the Nature of ſuch particular things? And whether ſuch Error ought to be imputed to pure Algebra?

Qu. 47. Whether the View of modern Mathematicians doth not rather ſeem to be the coming at an Expreſſion by Artifice, than the coming at Science by Demonſtration?

Qu. 48. Whether there may not be ſound Metaphyſics as well as unſound? Sound as well as unſound Logic? And whether the modern Analytics may not be brought under one of theſe Denominations, and which?

Qu. 49. Whe-