A treatise on the nature and causes of doubt in religious questions [by D.B. Baker].1831 - Skepticism - 192 pages |
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... persons overlooking this , and insisting , with warmth , upon the precise degree of conviction each person ought to feel , upon every point which they propose . Faith , is not sight , to however high a degree it may attain . The ...
... persons overlooking this , and insisting , with warmth , upon the precise degree of conviction each person ought to feel , upon every point which they propose . Faith , is not sight , to however high a degree it may attain . The ...
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... persons and authors , even of the highest name and integrity . " This difference , " adds Mr. Stewart , " between the technical meaning of the word probability , as employed by logi- cians , and the notion usually attached to it in the ...
... persons and authors , even of the highest name and integrity . " This difference , " adds Mr. Stewart , " between the technical meaning of the word probability , as employed by logi- cians , and the notion usually attached to it in the ...
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... Persons who speak of the evidence of religion as doubtful , and of this supposed doubtfulness as a positive argument against it , should be put upon considering , what that evidence is which they act upon with regard to their temporal ...
... Persons who speak of the evidence of religion as doubtful , and of this supposed doubtfulness as a positive argument against it , should be put upon considering , what that evidence is which they act upon with regard to their temporal ...
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... persons can keep reflecting , that this very manner of speaking supposes they are not satisfied that there is nothing in the evidence of which they speak thus ; or that they can avoid observing , if they do make this reflection , that ...
... persons can keep reflecting , that this very manner of speaking supposes they are not satisfied that there is nothing in the evidence of which they speak thus ; or that they can avoid observing , if they do make this reflection , that ...
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... persons ' trial : * that there seems no possible reason to be given , why one may not be in a state of moral probation with regard to the exercise of our faculties upon the subject of religion , as we are with regard to our behaviour on ...
... persons ' trial : * that there seems no possible reason to be given , why one may not be in a state of moral probation with regard to the exercise of our faculties upon the subject of religion , as we are with regard to our behaviour on ...
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