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Now the acts of enquiring and deliberating differ, though

deliberating is a kind of enquiring. We ought to ascertain about

Good Counsel likewise what it is, whether a kind of Knowledge, or

Opinion, or Happy Conjecture, or some other kind of faculty.

Knowledge it obviously is not, because men do not enquire about

what they know, and Good Counsel is a kind of deliberation, and

the man who is deliberating is enquiring and calculating.

Neither is it Happy Conjecture; because this is independent of

reasoning, and a rapid operation; but men deliberate a long time,

and it is a common saying that one should execute speedily what

has been resolved upon in deliberation, but deliberate slowly.

Quick perception of causes[35] again is a different faculty from

good counsel, for it is a species of Happy Conjecture. Nor is

Good Counsel Opinion of any kind.