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Es puntualmente tanta verdad, que la vemos con nuestros ojos los que vivimos en el Pirú; harto más manifiesta por la experiencia, de lo que nos pudiera ser por cualquier razón y demostración filosófica.
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The speaker says that this truth is plainly visible to people living in Peru. Their direct experience makes it clearer and more convincing than philosophical reasoning or formal proof alone could. The point is not that reasoning has no value, but that seeing something firsthand gives it an especially immediate force.
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