The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, ou…

Giambattista Vico
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The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself. ✨ Giambattista Vico, Leon Pompa (1982). Vico, p.55, CUP Archive
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