Evident certainty: first principles, scientific conclusions, and sense experience
Schools divide true certainty into evident and obscure, each with three grades.
Evident certainty runs from self-evident principles through scientific conclusions to sense experience.
Latin
III. Rursus certitudo vera & legitima dividitur in Scholis in evidentem & obscuram. Et in utraque tres quasi gradus distingui solent. Certitudo Evidens est earum rerum quae aliquo modo videntur, id est, clare percipiuntur. Cujus certitudinis primum gradum obtinent prima principia quae per se nota sunt, id est, quae solis vocabulis explicatis, sine alia ratiocinatione, ab omnibus vera esse cognoscuntur. Ut non posse idem simul esse & non esse: Totum esse majus sua parte, & quae similia sunt. Secundum gradum certitudinis Evidentis obtinent conclusiones ex primis principiis evidenter deductae, atque haec dicitur certitudo scientiae. Tertium gradum obtinent ea quae sensibus corporis percipiuntur, quae dicitur certitudo experientiae.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.