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Scepticism may doubt every thing in particular much it must not lay down any rule of doubt for therein it ceases to be scpticism.
Dec 13
It is necessary to reduce all our actions to logical processes so that to do anything is but to take another step in the chain of inference. Thus only can we effect that complete reciprocity between thought & its object which in Rant's Copernican step to announce.
Dec 13
The Scotch philosophers need to tell us that there is no present plan in favor of the results of Common Sense.

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NiallRoe

Not sure about "much" in the first line.

"Kant's" Copernican

The burden of proof is a phrase of the courtroom where questions *must be decided* one way or the other & has no place in speculative science where [crossed out: scepticism] [indefensible suspension][?] of judgment is permissible. However, since several of the important questions of philosophy are matters of practical interest, it may be allowed to speak of a burden of proof."