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... facts strictly connected with the propofi- tions ( and therefore no farther improbable than they are improbable ) , ought to be reject- ed at first fight , and to be rejected by what- ever strength or complication of evidence they be ...
... facts strictly connected with the propofi- tions ( and therefore no farther improbable than they are improbable ) , ought to be reject- ed at first fight , and to be rejected by what- ever strength or complication of evidence they be ...
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... fact is then only con- trary to experience , when the fact is related to have exifted at a time and place , at which time and place we being prefent did not per- ceive it to exift ; as if it fhould be afferted , that in a particular ...
... fact is then only con- trary to experience , when the fact is related to have exifted at a time and place , at which time and place we being prefent did not per- ceive it to exift ; as if it fhould be afferted , that in a particular ...
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... fact in queftion , that no fuch thing was ever ex- perienced , or that universal experience is against it , is to affume the fubject of the controverfy . Now the improbability which arifes from the want ( for this properly is a want ...
... fact in queftion , that no fuch thing was ever ex- perienced , or that universal experience is against it , is to affume the fubject of the controverfy . Now the improbability which arifes from the want ( for this properly is a want ...
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... fact folves the phenomenon . If we reject this folution , we ought to have fome other to reft in ; and none even by our ad- verfaries can be admitted , which is not con- fiftent with the principles that regulate hu- man affairs and ...
... fact folves the phenomenon . If we reject this folution , we ought to have fome other to reft in ; and none even by our ad- verfaries can be admitted , which is not con- fiftent with the principles that regulate hu- man affairs and ...
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... fact , are on all hands acknowledged . First then , the Chriftian religion exifts , and therefore by fome means or other was eftablished . Now it either owes the princi- ple of its establishment , i . e . its first publica- tion , to ...
... fact , are on all hands acknowledged . First then , the Chriftian religion exifts , and therefore by fome means or other was eftablished . Now it either owes the princi- ple of its establishment , i . e . its first publica- tion , to ...
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