"So that, which way soever you wriggle, to avoid our Rule, the Light of Common Reason, or Natural Logick, will force you into it, whether you will or no."
— Sergeant, John (1622-1707)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for A. Roper
Date
1698
Metaphor
"So that, which way soever you wriggle, to avoid our Rule, the Light of Common Reason, or Natural Logick, will force you into it, whether you will or no."
Metaphor in Context
[...] Wherefore, 'tis Evident, that you cannot pretend to see clearly and distinctly, that any Proposition is True, (which is your Rule to know Truth,) but by seeing its said Terms Connected, or Identify'd. I see not how you can, even in your Way of Ideas, deny this Clear Discourse: And, if you grant it, we are thus far Friends. Only, we add, that, to make such Connexions the RULE to all others, you must allow them to be Self-Connexions, or Identical; which is our Position. So that, which way soever you wriggle, to avoid our Rule, the Light of Common Reason, or Natural Logick, will force you into it, whether you will or no.
(p. 48)
(p. 48)
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Reading
Citation
John Sergeant, Non Ultra, or, A Letter to a Learned Cartesian Settling the Rule of Truth, and First Principles, Upon their Deepest Ground (London: Printed for A. Roper, 1698). <Link to EEBO-TCP>
Date of Entry
04/02/2013
