Potentially copyrighted passage By consulting this text, you confirm that you may use it for personal and educational purposes. Do not reproduce its content. If the book helps you, buy it to support the author or rights holders.

John Locke

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Section S2

Section 1,001 of 1,114

Canonical reference B4.C12.S2

English

Project Gutenberg transcription of Locke author text

One thing which might probably give an occasion to this way of proceeding in other sciences, was (as I suppose) the good success it seemed to have in MATHEMATICS, wherein men, being observed to attain a great certainty of knowledge, these sciences came by pre-eminence to be called [word in Greek], and [word in Greek], learning, or things learned, thoroughly learned, as having of all others the greatest certainty, clearness, and evidence in them.

French

Pierre Coste · Pierre Mortier, Amsterdam, 1735, third edition

Une choſe qui apparemment a donné lieu à cette méthode dans les autres Sciences, ç’a été, je penſe, le bon ſuccès qu’elle ſemble avoir dans les Mathematiques qui ont été ainſi nommées par excellence du mot Grec Μαθήματα, qui ſignifie Choſes appriſes, exactement & parfaitement appriſes, cette Science ayant un plus grand dégré de certitude, de clarté, & d’évidence qu’aucune autre Science.

Concepts in this passage

Before reading

What you will learn

Open the full record