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The Analyst.

doxes, concerning what they neither do nor can conceive? And whether the Doctrine of Forces be not a ſufficient Proof of this?[1]

Qu. 10. Whether in Geometry it may not ſuffice to conſider aſſignable finite Magnitude, without concerning our ſelves with Infinity? And whether it would not be righter to meaſure large Polygons having finite Sides, inſtead of Curves, than to ſuppoſe Curves are Polygons of infiniteſimal Sides, a Suppoſition neither true nor conceivable?

Qu. 11. Whether many Points, which are not readily aſſented to, are not nevertheleſs true? And whether thoſe in the two following Queries may not be of that Number?

Qu. 12. Whether it be poſſible, that we ſhould have had an Idea or Notion of Extenſion prior to Motion? Or whether if a Man had never perceived Motion, he would ever have known or conceived one thing to be diſtant from another?

Qu. 13. Whe-
  1. See a Latin Treatiſe De Motu, publiſhed at London, in the Year 1721.