The First Precept Was Never To Accept

How Do We Know That Anything Really Exists, That Anything Is Really The Way It Seems Ot Us Through Our Senses?

Neither The True Nor The False Roots Are Always Real; Sometimes They Are Imaginary; That Is, While We Can Always Imagine As Many Roots For Each Equation As I Have Assigned, Yet There Is Not Always A Definite Quantity Corresponding To Each Root We Have Imagined.

Mathematics Is A More Powerful Instrument Of Knowledge Than Any Other That Has Been Bequeathed To Us By Human Agency.

I Think; Therefore I Am.

But Possibly I Am Something More Than I Suppose Myself To Be.