Même = M. F. bien plus, et même — andfurther

21. Créance. Descartes distinguishes carefully between croire, to accept as true, to believe (Lat. crcdere), and savoir, or connaître, to know; between créance, beliefs or creed, and raison, reason.

22. Que je n'eusse — without having, similar to Latin construction of quiu with subjunctive : Nulla dies est quin veniat.

23. Etre capable de : to be able to grasp. The etymology of 'capable ' is: capabilis, Le., cap, stem of cap-io, to grasp + aôilis = able.

24. Etudier à = Lat. studere (dat.). M. F. 'étudier' is transitive. Therefore ' étudier la logique.'

25. 'Contribuer quelquechose' is archaic; M.F. 'contribuer en quelque chose.'

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26. The iheory of the lyllogism indicates under wbat conditions a conclusion is tbc logkal remit of certain prémisses j it does not tcach anything ebe.

27. Raymond Lulle, boni in 1235 in l'aima, in the isle of Majorca, «lied in 1315 ; pefhapi tlu- most singular genius that the Middle Ages prodaced. ne iras ■ philosopher, s tneologian, an tdventurer; mystic and logician ; fought for Church against freethought and ex suspicions of Inquisition. Hewrote^n magna, in which he exposed a new method l>oth dialcciieal and theological.

28. ' Parmi,' used as an adverb conformably to its etymology : per + médium m with them.