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OF TRIFLING PROPOSITIONS.
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Some Propositions bring no Increase to our Knowledge.
WHETHER the maxims treated of in the foregoing chapter be of that use to real knowledge as is generally supposed, I leave to be considered.
This, I think, may confidently be affirmed, That there ARE universal propositions, which, though they be certainly true, yet they add no light to our understanding; bring no increase to our knowledge.

Such are-- 2.

As, First, identical Propositions.
First, All purely IDENTICAL PROPOSITIONS.