A treatise on the nature and causes of doubt in religious questions [by D.B. Baker].1831 - Skepticism - 192 pages |
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... difficulties , and a general state of uncertainty as to the nature and fair- ness of that kind of Proof upon which assent is demanded . It is , as is already observed , the peculiar object of this treatise , to alleviate these PREFACE . xi.
... difficulties , and a general state of uncertainty as to the nature and fair- ness of that kind of Proof upon which assent is demanded . It is , as is already observed , the peculiar object of this treatise , to alleviate these PREFACE . xi.
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... PROOF IN RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS II . INADEQUATE ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE " FACTS OF THE CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE PART II . MORAL CAUSES . CHAP . I. EXCESS IN SOME LEGITIMATE PROPEN- SITIES II . PRIDE III . WANT OF ADEQUATE SERIOUSNESS IV . - FEAR ...
... PROOF IN RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS II . INADEQUATE ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE " FACTS OF THE CHRISTIAN EVIDENCE PART II . MORAL CAUSES . CHAP . I. EXCESS IN SOME LEGITIMATE PROPEN- SITIES II . PRIDE III . WANT OF ADEQUATE SERIOUSNESS IV . - FEAR ...
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... PROOF IN RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS . UNDER this head , I shall speak almost ex- clusively in the words of others , for I confess myself unable to express the same things so well . The object of this chapter is , as its title designates , to ...
... PROOF IN RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS . UNDER this head , I shall speak almost ex- clusively in the words of others , for I confess myself unable to express the same things so well . The object of this chapter is , as its title designates , to ...
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... proof , but only to mark the particular nature of that proof , as contradistinguished from other species of evi- dence . It is opposed , not to what is certain , but to what admits of being demonstrated after persons overlooking this ...
... proof , but only to mark the particular nature of that proof , as contradistinguished from other species of evi- dence . It is opposed , not to what is certain , but to what admits of being demonstrated after persons overlooking this ...
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... proof , altogether unattain- able in moral inquiries , and which , if it could be attained , would not be less liable to the cavils of sceptics . " * On the subject of this only attainable spe- cies of proof in moral and religious ...
... proof , altogether unattain- able in moral inquiries , and which , if it could be attained , would not be less liable to the cavils of sceptics . " * On the subject of this only attainable spe- cies of proof in moral and religious ...
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