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Some hold that, owing to the necessity of knowing the primary premisses, there is no scientific knowledge. |
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Our own doctrine is that not all knowledge is demonstrative: |
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Now demonstration must be based on premisses prior to and better known than the conclusion; |
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The advocates of circular demonstration are not only faced with the difficulty we have just stated: |
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Now, it has been shown that the positing of one thing-be it one term or one premiss-never involves a necessary consequent: |
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