T 2.1.3.7
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Here, therefore, moral philosophy is in the same condition as natural, with regard to astronomy before the time of Copernicus. The antients, tho' sensible of that maxim, that nature does nothing in vain, contriv'd such intricate systems of the heavens, as seem'd inconsistent with true philosophy, and gave place at last to something more simple and natural. To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phænomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypotheses with a variety of this kind; are certain proofs, that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falshoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.
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| Ware 2014 | 2.1.2-5 T 2.1.2.1 to T 2.1.5.11 (29 paragraphs) Citation pattern | …ion of our mental operations, what he calls "reflection" or "internal sense" (Locke 1689: 2.1.2-5, 104-6). His distin… |