A treatise on the nature and causes of doubt in religious questions [by D.B. Baker].1831 - Skepticism - 192 pages |
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... matter ; yet it witnesseth , certainly , that there is fire there . And therefore , dubious questioning is much better evidence than that senseless deadness , which most take for believing . Men that know nothing in sciences , have no ...
... matter ; yet it witnesseth , certainly , that there is fire there . And therefore , dubious questioning is much better evidence than that senseless deadness , which most take for believing . Men that know nothing in sciences , have no ...
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... matter ; yet it witnesseth , certainly , that there is fire there . And therefore , dubious questioning is much better evidence than that senseless deadness , which most take for believing . Men that know nothing in sciences , have no ...
... matter ; yet it witnesseth , certainly , that there is fire there . And therefore , dubious questioning is much better evidence than that senseless deadness , which most take for believing . Men that know nothing in sciences , have no ...
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... matter , and a solution of it . " My mind found rest in that kind of con- viction , which belongs particularly to moral subjects ; and seems to depend on an intuitive B perception of the truth through broken clouds of doubt ...
... matter , and a solution of it . " My mind found rest in that kind of con- viction , which belongs particularly to moral subjects ; and seems to depend on an intuitive B perception of the truth through broken clouds of doubt ...
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... matter . Amongst so much to the purpose , it is not easy to select . Perhaps , however , those which are presently to follow are as appropriate as any others . Most , in first setting out in their inquiries into the just grounds of ...
... matter . Amongst so much to the purpose , it is not easy to select . Perhaps , however , those which are presently to follow are as appropriate as any others . Most , in first setting out in their inquiries into the just grounds of ...
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... matters of speculation ; and in matters of practice , will lay us under an absolute and formal obligation , in point of prudence and of interest , to act upon that presumption or low probability , though it be so low as to leave the ...
... matters of speculation ; and in matters of practice , will lay us under an absolute and formal obligation , in point of prudence and of interest , to act upon that presumption or low probability , though it be so low as to leave the ...
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