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Buonanni, Filippo · 1691

CHAPTER XII.
It is weighed that universal inference is very fallacious. 47.
CHAPTER XIII.
Faith must be given to experiments, not to the opinions of others. page 49.
CHAPTER XIV.
Faith must be given to the experiments of the Moderns, such that the documents of the Ancients are also not despised. 54.
CHAPTER XV.
All are subject to errors. 56.
CHAPTER XVI.
Nature does not always operate in the same way, even in the same genus of things. 57.
CHAPTER XVII.
Induction must be admitted, but as fallacious. 60.
CHAPTER XVIII.
The generation of things is very difficult to know. 62.
CHAPTER XIX.
Trust must be placed in others. 67.
CHAPTER XX.
Yet one should not always believe authority alone. 69.
CHAPTER XXI.
The senses never err. Thus it seemed to Saint Augustine. page 73.
CHAPTER XXII.
The intellect, however, errs by deducing false things from true observations. 76.
CHAPTER XXIII.
Experiments must be taken with the mind inclined to no side. 79.
CHAPTER XXIV.
The difficulty of knowing the truth is increased by the uncertainty of experiments, but the impossibility of spontaneous origin is not argued. 81.
CHAPTER XXV.
The variation of experiments sometimes arises from carelessness. page 86.