“The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.”

Source: Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731), Ch. 5, sct. 7

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English philosopher 1617–1688

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