De coniecturis
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- Latin
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- ~36,600 words · 174 passages
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What it is about
On Conjectures: everything the human mind produces is conjecture.
Context and history
The technical sequel to Learned Ignorance. If exact truth is unreachable, knowledge is approximation — and Cusanus builds a theory of how it approximates, with geometrical figures and numbers. It is the hardest of his books. Text in LATIN: Cusanus's original, and the version to cite.
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