Essays: On the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism : on Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind : on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition : on the Utility of Classical Learning, Volume 1William Creech, Edinburgh; and for E. & C. Dilly, and T. Cadell, London, 1776 - Classical education - 555 pages |
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... doubt . We may , without abfurdity , speak of pro- bable truth , as well as of certain truth . Whatever a rational being is determined , by the constitution of his nature , to admit as probable , may be called probable truth ; the ...
... doubt . We may , without abfurdity , speak of pro- bable truth , as well as of certain truth . Whatever a rational being is determined , by the constitution of his nature , to admit as probable , may be called probable truth ; the ...
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... doubt , in respect of this , as well as of fome other modifica- tions of perception , original and conftitu- * See Smith's Theory of moral fentiments , fect . 1 . tional differences in the frame of different minds . 3. tional 34 Part I ...
... doubt , in respect of this , as well as of fome other modifica- tions of perception , original and conftitu- * See Smith's Theory of moral fentiments , fect . 1 . tional differences in the frame of different minds . 3. tional 34 Part I ...
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... doubt ; that nothing is to be taken for granted , and no- thing believed , without proof . If this be admitted , it must also be admitted , that rea- fon is the ultimate judge of truth , to which common sense must continually act in ...
... doubt ; that nothing is to be taken for granted , and no- thing believed , without proof . If this be admitted , it must also be admitted , that rea- fon is the ultimate judge of truth , to which common sense must continually act in ...
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... doubt as to this matter , let us fuppofe , that the evidence of external fenfe is more unquestionable than that of abstract intuitive truth , and that every intuitive principle in mathematics may thus be brought to the test of sense ...
... doubt as to this matter , let us fuppofe , that the evidence of external fenfe is more unquestionable than that of abstract intuitive truth , and that every intuitive principle in mathematics may thus be brought to the test of sense ...
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... doubts of his own existence . He may as well fay , that he believes one and two to be equal to fix , a part to be greater than a whole , a circle to be a triangle ; and that it may be poffible for the fame thing , at the fame time , to ...
... doubts of his own existence . He may as well fay , that he believes one and two to be equal to fix , a part to be greater than a whole , a circle to be a triangle ; and that it may be poffible for the fame thing , at the fame time , to ...
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