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T 1.3.3.2

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All certainty arises from the comparison of ideas, and from the discovery of such relations as are unalterable, so long as the ideas continue the same. These relations are resemblance, proportions in quantity and number, degrees of any quality, and contrariety; none of which are imply'd in this proposition, Whatever has a beginning has also a cause of existence. That proposition therefore is not intuitively certain. At least any one, who wou'd assert it to be intuitively certain, must deny these to be the only infallible relations, and must find some other relation of that kind to be imply'd in it; which it will then be time enough to examine.

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Spector 19981.3.3
T 1.3.3 (12 paragraphs)
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….3.2 Chapter-by-Chapter Outline...................................................... 33 1.3.3 A Note about Readin…
1.3.3
T 1.3.3 (12 paragraphs)
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…y something about the kind of historical-yet-contemporary project we are undertaking. ## 1.3.3 A Note about Readin…
Pitson 2012T 1.3.2-14
T 1.3.2.1 to T 1.3.14.25 n32 (218 paragraphs)
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…ning of certain key philosophical ideas (for example, space and time, T 1.2.3; causation, T 1.3.2-14; the mind, T 1.4.5.…
Pitson 2013T 1.3.2-14
T 1.3.2.1 to T 1.3.14.25 n32 (218 paragraphs)
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…ain key philosophical ideas (for example, space and time (T 1.2.3; SBN 33-39), causation (T 1.3.2-14; SBN 73-172), the m…