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(Here, incidentally, Mr. Cameron seems to quote less correctly; the words "make nature" are put in quotation marks in the text because they are taken from Vico's famous remark: si physica demonstrare possemus, faceremus, "Mathematical matters we can prove because we ourselves make them; to prove the physical [i.e., nature] we would have to make it.")
Distinctions Arendt, Hannah 1970
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_Nullo suo peccato impediantur, quo minus alterius peccata demonstrare possint.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Jonathan Swift 1706
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_Ea nascitur ex Fabrica, & Ratiocinatione. &c. Ratiocinatio autem est, quæ, res fabricatas, Solertia ac ratione proportionis, demonstrare at [que] explicare potest.
The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara John Dee 1567
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Genitivus singularis horum nominum, in [Greek: ônos], contractione sua, hanc originem satis videtur demonstrare. "
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Vico, in a Tract published at Naples, 1710, (6) “Geometrica ideò demonstramus, quia facimus; physica si demonstrare possimus, faceremus.
Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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