《Tetrabiblos》That Prescience Is UsefulClaudius Ptolemy（Ashmand 英譯 1822）
In general, however, the persons who attack and reprobate it as being useless, do not pay due regard to the manner in which it becomes necessary; but deny its utility on the specious argument that it is superfluous and puerile to attempt to foreknow things which must inevitably come to pass: thus considering it in a mode at once abstracted, unlearned, and unfair.
段落 tetra-1-thatpresci-7public-domain (Ashmand 1822)
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