Quote: necessary truths and contingent truths differ as rationals differ from irrationals; the former reduces to identity while the later leads to infinite regress

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[A specimen of Discoveries about marvelous secrets of nature in general (c. 1686)] There is an essential distinction between necessary … much in the way that rational numbers and … [a sum containing irrationals] differ. For necessary truths can be reduced to identical truths … ; but in the case of contingent truths, … the certitude and perfect reason of contingent truths …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: the certitude and perfect reason of contingent truths is known only to God, who grasps the infinite with one intuition

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