 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Theology - 1838 - 632 pages
...1752 Annos natus 60. 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 (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 616 pages
...1752. Annos natus 60. 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,... | |
 | 1914 - 964 pages
...sufficiency of slight probabilities: — "Probable evidence Is esentially 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 preTht» Spectator sumption. We cannot indeed say a thing... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Halifax - Sermons, English - 1844 - 414 pages
.............. . . . 316 INTRODUCTION. T)ROBABLE evidence is essentially distinguished -i- 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, Samuel Hallifax - Apologetics - 1848 - 632 pages
...I7S2 Annos natui CO. 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 (bp. of Durham.) - 1850 - 342 pages
...ANALOGY OF RELIGION. 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 - 1851 - 338 pages
...concerned in it. May, 1736, 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... | |
 | John Halloway Hanson - 1854 - 504 pages
...as fact. "Probable evidence," says Bishop Bntler, "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... | |
 | John Halloway Hanson - Impostors and imposture - 1854 - 498 pages
...as fact. " Probable evidence," says Bishop Butler, " 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... | |
 | Church and the world - 1854 - 664 pages
...analogical reasoning. " Probable evidence." says he, " is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees; and of all variety of them, from the highest mi,ral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. We cannot, in* Kant. Crit. du Jugement, §... | |
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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... 
