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Logic 38 Veracity of God or of Consciousness. The Criterion of Clearness

thinking in its own movement presumably of the same nature as that we represent by arguments and inferences but not so representable in consequence of a defeat in that method of representation.

Descartes and others have endeavored to [?on?bter] up the light of reason by make-believe arguments from the "veracity of God" and the like.
They had better not have pretended to call that in question which they intended to prove since their proofs themselves call for the sme light to make them evident.
Besides reason left is itself at least believes in its own pronouncements while it refuses to sanction the pretensions to infallibility made in its behalf on the groundof sundry "veracities".

The celebrated criterion of clearness and distinctness proposed by Descartes and amended to little purpose by