Knowledge Of Languages Is The Doorway To

There Are Two Modes Of Acquiring Knowledge, Namely By Reasoning And Experience. Reasoning Draws A Conclusion And Makes Us Grant The Conclusion, But Does Not Make The Conclusion Certain, Nor Does It Remove Doubt So That The Mind May Rest On The Intuition Of Truth, Unless The Mind Discovers It By The Path Of Experience.

As Regards Authority I So Proceed. Boetius Says In The Second Prologue To His Arithmetic, 'if An Inquirer Lacks The Four Parts Of Mathematics, He Has Very Little Ability To Discover Truth.' And Again, 'without This Theory No One Can Have A Correct Insight Into Truth.' And He Says Also, 'i Warn The Man Who Spurns These Paths Of Knowledge That He Cannot Philosophize Correctly.' And Again, 'it Is Clear That Whosoever Passes These By, Has Lost The Knowledge Of All Learning.'

Knowledge Of Languages Is The Doorway To Wisdom.

Reasoning Draws A Conclusion, But Does Not Make The Conclusion Certain, Unless The Mind Discovers It By The Path Of Experience.

All Science Requires Mathematics. The Knowledge Of Mathematical Things Is Almost Innate In Us. This Is The Easiest Of Sciences, A Fact Which Is Obvious In That No One's Brain Rejects It; For Laymen And People Who Are Utterly Illiterate Know How To Count And Reckon.