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The Analyst.

ſufficient Pretext and Apology, for the admitting of ſuch Points in Geometry?

Qu. 24. Whether a Quantity be not properly ſaid to be known, when we know its Proportion to given Quantities? And whether this Proportion can be known, but by Expreſſions or Exponents, either Geometrical, Algebraical, or Arithmetical? And whether Expreſſions in Lines or Species can be uſeful but ſo far forth as they are reducible to Numbers?

25. Whether the finding out proper Expreſſions or Notations of Quantity be not the moſt general Character and Tendency of the Mathematics? And Arithmetical Operation that which limits and defines their Uſe?

Qu. 26. Whether Mathematicians have ſufficiently conſidered the Analogy and Uſe of Signs? And how far the ſpecific limited Nature of things correſponds thereto?

Qu. 27. Whether becauſe, in ſtating a general Caſe of pure Algebra, we are at

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