Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth: With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error, in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as Well as in the Sciences |
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... believe , or to deny every thing at first hearing ; when you shall have often seen , that strange and uncom- mon things , which often feemed incredible , are found to be true ; and things very commonly re- ceiv'd have been found falfe ...
... believe , or to deny every thing at first hearing ; when you shall have often seen , that strange and uncom- mon things , which often feemed incredible , are found to be true ; and things very commonly re- ceiv'd have been found falfe ...
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... believe in Chrift ; and another by the Word Church means only the Church of Rome ; they may both affent to this Propofiti- on , There is no Salvation out of the Church , and yet their inward Sentiments may be widely diffe- rent . Again ...
... believe in Chrift ; and another by the Word Church means only the Church of Rome ; they may both affent to this Propofiti- on , There is no Salvation out of the Church , and yet their inward Sentiments may be widely diffe- rent . Again ...
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... believe thefe Propo- fitions to be true , is because the Ideas of the Sub- jects and Predicates appear with fo much Clear- nefs and Strength of Evidence to agree to each other , that the Mind cannot help difcerning the Agreement , and ...
... believe thefe Propo- fitions to be true , is because the Ideas of the Sub- jects and Predicates appear with fo much Clear- nefs and Strength of Evidence to agree to each other , that the Mind cannot help difcerning the Agreement , and ...
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... believe Falfhood , if compleat Evi- dence fhould be found in any Propofitions that are not true . But furely the God of perfect Wif- dom , Truth and Goodness would never oblige his Creatures to be thus deceived ; and therefore he would ...
... believe Falfhood , if compleat Evi- dence fhould be found in any Propofitions that are not true . But furely the God of perfect Wif- dom , Truth and Goodness would never oblige his Creatures to be thus deceived ; and therefore he would ...
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... believe or difbelieve in human Affairs , or in the Sciences , have very various Degrees of Evidence , which yet arife not to compleat Certainty , either of Truth or Falfhood . Thus it comes to pass that there are fuch various and almoft ...
... believe or difbelieve in human Affairs , or in the Sciences , have very various Degrees of Evidence , which yet arife not to compleat Certainty , either of Truth or Falfhood . Thus it comes to pass that there are fuch various and almoft ...
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Page 71 - ... yourselves, as well as learn them from others ; be acquainted with men as well as books ; learn all things as much as you can at...
Page 71 - ... knowledge that is required or expected of any man, in things which are utterly foreign to his...
Page 184 - Some are good humoured without compliment ; others have all the formalities of complaisance, but no good humour. We ought to know that one man may be vicious and learned, while another has virtue without learning. That many a man thinks admirably well, who has a poor utterance ; while others have a charming manner of speech, but their thoughts are trifling and impertinent. Some are good neighbours, and courteous, and charitable toward men, who have no piety towards God ; others are truly religious,...
Page 285 - After a considerable time Protagoras goes to law with Euathlus for the reward, and uses this dilemma : ' Either the cause will go on my side, or on yours : if the cause...
Page 308 - Parts of this fort of Learning are well •worth our Study ; for by perpetual Examples they teach us to conceive with Clearnefs, to connect our Ideas and Propofitions in a Train of Dependence, to reafon with Strength and DemonItration, and to diftinguifh between Truth and Falfhood.
Page 69 - ... and national ; things of your native land, and of foreign countries; things...
Page 2 - Veritas in puteo, truth lies in a well; and to carry on this metaphor we may very justly say, that logic does, as it were, supply us with steps whereby we may go down to reach the water; or it frames the links of a chain, whereby we may draw the water up from the bottom.
Page 280 - ... 2. A disjunctive syllogism is when the major proposition is disjunctive ; as, The earth moves in a circle or an ellipsis ; but it does not move in a circle ; therefore, it moves in an ellipsis. " A disjunctive syllogism may have many members or parts : thus, It is either spring, summer, autumn, or winter ; but it is not spring, autumn, or winter ; therefore, it is summer.
Page 174 - God himfelf. that gives a convincing and indubitable evidence of the truth and divinity of it...
Page 71 - Use the most proper methods to retain that treasure of ideas which you have acquired; for the mind is ready to let many of them slip, unless some pains and labor be taken to fix them upon the memory.