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Nicholas Malebranche

(1638 - 1715)

French philosopher.

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1 do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

— Nicholas Malebranche

Oeuvres, Vol. 2, 292g. Trans. J. L. Heilbron, Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics (1979), 42.

See also: | Algebra (11) | Arithmetic (20) | Knowledge (341) | Usefulness (19)

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