...flioiild alfo be both Agent and Patient, contrary to the common Axiom founded upon the firil Principle, That a Thing cannot be and not be at the fame time. Moreover, the Qualities of the Genitures .being contrary, that of the Worain cold and moid, and that...

...be made more plain by Demonfl ration ; as Tli«t where there is no Law, there ii no Tranfgrejjan j That a Thing cannot be and not be at the fame Time ; That the Whale it greater than it* Partí, 8cc. In Logtck, £lrtoma is the dilpofing of one Argument...

...like fentences in a common-place book ; and, therefore, muft be difcoverable to, »nd have the afient of all mankind. Such maxims as, Whatever is, is ;...never reflected upon them in a fpeculative manner j and, perhaps, if they were dated to them in the form of general propofuions, they would at firft...

...cafe be falfe, we can no longer have any certainty of any thing : thus it being intuitively evident that a thing cannot be and not be at the fame time and in the fame refpefl, no proportion contradicting this principle can be believed on any authority...