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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The dedication concedes that the speaker has not personally tried everything and then maintains a claim to tested knowledge acquired through others. The concessive structure matters: the admission is neither a denial of all experience nor a license to summarize the passage as wholly first-hand experimentation. Elsewhere similar concessions and qualifications keep a broad assertion from becoming an unconditioned universal.
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- Dedication to Johann Winckelsteiner · Passage 3Latin“Et quamvis non omnia ipsemet expertus sim, tamen”