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... further discussion , and apparently does not unfold any truth . For beginners , indeed , it has no further value than to teach them how not to waste time , and it employs nearly the same arguments in doing so as Rule II . But it shows ...
... further discussion , and apparently does not unfold any truth . For beginners , indeed , it has no further value than to teach them how not to waste time , and it employs nearly the same arguments in doing so as Rule II . But it shows ...
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... Further it is impossible to derive a magnitude from others that are determinately fixed , and in which it is in any way contained , by any other methods . But if we have to derive a magnitude from others from which it is wholly diverse ...
... Further it is impossible to derive a magnitude from others that are determinately fixed , and in which it is in any way contained , by any other methods . But if we have to derive a magnitude from others from which it is wholly diverse ...
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... further finding a firm substratum of rock or clay . It is not here that we must stop . There is more ; even if you did not wish further to examine the reasons which I have just stated , they would yet already in their principal effect ...
... further finding a firm substratum of rock or clay . It is not here that we must stop . There is more ; even if you did not wish further to examine the reasons which I have just stated , they would yet already in their principal effect ...
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