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Now Knowledge is a conception concerning universals and Necessary

matter, and there are of course certain First Principles in all

trains of demonstrative reasoning (that is of all Knowledge

because this is connected with reasoning): that faculty, then,

which takes in the first principles of that which comes under the

range of Knowledge, cannot be either Knowledge, or Art, or

Practical Wisdom: not Knowledge, because what is the object of

Knowledge must be derived from demonstrative reasoning; not

either of the other two, because they are exercised upon

Contingent matter only. Nor can it be Science which takes in

these, because the Scientific Man must in some cases depend on

demonstrative Reasoning.