e understood in two ways. First, as when a cognitive power judges of its proper object, according to Job 12:11 : "Doth not the ear discern words, and the palate of him that eateth, the taste?" It is to this kind of judgment that the Philosopher alludes when he says that "anyone c…

atters, wherein he cannot judge whether that which is proposed to him be true or false, according to Job 12:11 : "Doth not the ear discern words?" Now a man cannot form a judgment of this kind in matters of faith, since he cannot trace them back to first principles, by which all…

e his assent when he cannot judge whether what is proposed to him is true or false. As it is said in Job 12:11 : “Doth not the ear try words?” Now a man cannot so judge of the things of faith, because he cannot see how they are derived from their first principles, which is the wa…