Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 11. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 529
... Evidence is converfant about probabilities . Nothing indeed is more evident , than that in the affent of the mind to every propofition , fome energy of the judgment is ex- erted ; and upon every propofition not felf - evident ...
... Evidence is converfant about probabilities . Nothing indeed is more evident , than that in the affent of the mind to every propofition , fome energy of the judgment is ex- erted ; and upon every propofition not felf - evident ...
Page 531
... evidence exceeds not what is called probability . All probability , then , fuppofes an oppofition of experiments and obfervations , where the one fide is found to overbalance the other , and to produce a degree of evidence proportioned ...
... evidence exceeds not what is called probability . All probability , then , fuppofes an oppofition of experiments and obfervations , where the one fide is found to overbalance the other , and to produce a degree of evidence proportioned ...
Page 532
... evidence of fenfe , memory , and reason ; but here the evidence of fenfe not complete , and it can be ftrengthened only by finding more facts of the fame or of a fimilar na- 135 Mankind ready to of each other . ture . SECT . IV . Of ...
... evidence of fenfe , memory , and reason ; but here the evidence of fenfe not complete , and it can be ftrengthened only by finding more facts of the fame or of a fimilar na- 135 Mankind ready to of each other . ture . SECT . IV . Of ...
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