 | Jean Claude - Preaching - 1782 - 648 pages
...evidence, fays one of our beft reafoning divines, is eiil'iuially diilinguifhed from demonftrative by this, that it admits of degrees; and of all variety of them, from the higheli moral certainty to the very loweft preemption - - That the fligiuelt poffible prefumption is... | |
 | Jean Claude - Preaching - 1782 - 644 pages
...evidence, fays one of our beft reafoning divines, is eflential'y dilti.ifuifhed from demonftrative y this, that it admits of degrees; and of all variety of them, from the highell moral certainty to the very loweft prefumpri m - - That the flighted poffible prefuraption... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...344 CONCLUSION, 361 INTRODUCTION. PROBABLE evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees, and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. We cannot, indeed, say a thing is probably... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1813 - 496 pages
...Dissert. 1 373 II. . . 385 INTRODUCTION. PROBABLE evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees, and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. We cannot, indeed, say a thing is probably... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Analogy (Religion) - 1819 - 256 pages
...of Durham, 1751 225 INTRODUCTION. PROBABLE evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees; and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. We cannot indeed say a thing is probably true... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1820 - 264 pages
...of Durham, 1751 225 INTRODUCTION. PROBABLE evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees; and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. We cannot indeed aay a thing is probably true... | |
 | David Bristow Baker - Skepticism - 1831 - 244 pages
...the following will well explain. "Probable evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees, and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption—it affords in its very nature but an imperfect... | |
 | Thomas Thrush - Peace - 1833 - 306 pages
...Religion, says: " Probable evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this,—that it admits of degrees; and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. We cannot indeed say a thing is probably true... | |
 | Apologetics - 1834 - 588 pages
...CUPAH, FIPB, July, 1834. INTRODUCTION. PEOBABLE evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees, and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. We cannot, indeed, say a thing is probably... | |
 | Robert Haldane - Bible - 1834 - 526 pages
...that he wrote commentaries of many * Probable evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees, and of all variety of them, from the very lowest presumption to the highest moral certainty. of his exploits ; and that he gave rise to... | |
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Probable evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees; and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. We cannot indeed say a thing is probably true upon one... 
