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Lull's Book of
Propositions
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2 - Questions
Because the deficient intellectual virtue of the uneducated and sometimes even of those whose understanding
has been prepared by thorough and fruitful studies,
is unable to apprehend the lofty subtlety of several points found in this book, it is now necessary
and very useful, in order to dispel the clouds of ignorance, to
provide examples so that the reader will not perchance form opinions that are alien to the Art. Since
the author of this book is well aware of this hazard, he
included examples of all the preceding material here in the second part of the last section, showing
how to track down and find any particular in its universals.
This part has ten parts, namely the ten general figures of this Art, and note that this part is designed
to contain two questions for each and every principle of the
said figures. Both questions are solved with the same cameras, and these cameras with their statements
display the universals where the particular points can be
sought and found, as was already explained in section three.
Note that the first camera in the solution of a question is the initial one, and the other cameras that
follow are meant to corroborate the first camera. And as there
are two questions for each of the 245 principles, 245x2 gives 490 questions.
Note further that the cameras of the figures of this Art are more universal than their questions, since
all arts and sciences, if they are not defective or in a state of
utter confusion, consist in universals and not in particulars. And if there is some particular that
is perchance not covered by the questions in this volume, then
make propositions in accordance with the doctrine and rule of the above propositions and produce them
in the cameras of the figures so as to track down that
particular, because the principles of the figures, through their ultimate universality, are quite sufficient
for responding to countless questions.
Now let us proceed with the substance of this part, and as figure T. precedes all the other figures
in this volume, let us follow the sequence and first deal with the
questions related to the principles and cameras of T.
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