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A42833 The vanity of dogmatizing, or, Confidence in opinions manifested in a discourse of the shortness and uncertainty of our knowledge, and its causes : with some reflexions on peripateticism, and an apology for philosophy / by Jos. Glanvill ...; Scepsis scientifica Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680. 1661 (1661) Wing G834; ESTC R3090 94,173 290

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