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Reason Is Nothing Without Imagination.

If I Simply Refrain From Making A Judgment In Cases Where I Do Not Perceive The Truth With Sufficient Clarity And Distinctness, Then It Is Clear That I Am Behaving Correctly And Avoiding Error.

I Did Not Imitate The Skeptics Who Doubt Only For Doubting's Sake, And Pretend To Be Always Undecided; On The Contrary, My Whole Intention Was To Arrive At A Certainty, And To Dig Away The Drift And The Sand Until I Reached The Rock Or The Clay Beneath.

This Result Could Have Been Achieved Either By His [god] Endowing My Intellect With A Clear And Distinct Perception Of Everything About Which I Would Ever Deliberate, Or Simply By Impressing The Following Rule So Firmly Upon My Memory That I Could Never Forget It: I Should Never Judge Anything That I Do Not Clearly And Distinctly Understand.

... Moral Certainty Is Certainty Which Is Sufficient To Regulate Our Behaviour, Or Which Measures Up To The Certainty We Have On Matters Relating To The Conduct Of Life Which We Never Normally Doubt, Though We Know That It Is Possible, Absolutely Speaking, That They May Be False.