BOOK I PART IV
different from all its parts. I had almost said,
that this was certain; but I reflect that it must
reduce itself, as well as every other reasoning,
and from knowledge degenerate into probabil-
ity.
Since therefore all knowledge resolves itself
into probability, and becomes at last of the
same nature with that evidence, which we em-
ploy in common life, we must now examine
this latter species of reasoning, and see on what
foundation it stands.
In every judgment, which we can form
concerning probability, as well as concerning
knowledge, we ought always to correct the first
judgment, derived from the nature of the ob-
ject, by another judgment, derived from the na-
ture of the understanding. It is certain a man
of solid sense and long experience ought to