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Margin Sidebar: Logic III [4?]
* 510 C to the end, but in the
[Laws?[ this notion is improved.

Plato, is the Sixth book of the Republic*, holds that theessential characteristic of mathematics, [Pikes in] [speculiar?] kind and degree of its abstraction, greater than that of physics but less than that of what we now call philosophy; and Aristotle [follwers?] his smarter in this (definition). It has ever since been the habit of [metaphysicians?] to extol their own reasonings and conclusions as vastly more, scientific [(abs?)] than those of mathematics. It certainly would seem that problems about God, Freedom, and Immortaility are more exalted than, for example, the question how many hours, minutes, and seconds would elapse before [tm?] couriers traveling under assumed conditions will come-together; although I do not know that this has been [gor?]. But that the methods of thought or the metaphysicians (crossed out word) are as a matter of historical fact, (2 crossed words), in any aspect, not far inferior to those of [wa?] the [matics?] is simply an infatuation. One singular consequence of the notion which [pre?] during the greater part of the [b?] of philosophy that metaphysical reasoning [sp?] to be similar to that of mathematics only have [has been.......?]
[Kant?] regarded mathematical peopositions as [synthetical?] judgments a [gri?]; wherein there is this much

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