| Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pagina’s
...probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly knows to be so Nay, further, in... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1813 - 496 pagina’s
...probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly knows to be so. Nay, further, in... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1814 - 482 pagina’s
...must of necessity be our guide in all matters which do not admit of demonstrative evidence ; " for a man is as really bound in prudence to do " what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his " judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly " knows to be so." Reasoning... | |
| Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1819 - 256 pagina’s
...probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly knows to be so. Nay. further, in... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1820 - 264 pagina’s
...probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly knows to be so. Nay, further, in... | |
| David Bristow Baker - 1831 - 244 pagina’s
...probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in very great doubt which is the truth. For surely, a man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly knows to be so. Nay, further, in... | |
| 1834 - 588 pagina’s
...probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be • The story i§ told by Mr. Locke, in the chapter of Probability. for... | |
| Richard Cattermole - 1834 - 414 pagina’s
...probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence, to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly knows to be so. Nay further, in... | |
| Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 616 pagina’s
...probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly knows to be so. Nay, further, in... | |
| Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1838 - 632 pagina’s
...Probability, D INTRODUCTION'. as to leave the mind in very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly knows to be so. Nay further, in... | |
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