The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 3R. Carter, 1841 |
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... 345 VIII . On the Connexion between the Truth of a Mira- cle , and the Truth of the Doctrine in support of which it is performed , • 374 BOOK I. PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS . CHAPTER I. On the Cognizance xii CONTENTS .
... 345 VIII . On the Connexion between the Truth of a Mira- cle , and the Truth of the Doctrine in support of which it is performed , • 374 BOOK I. PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS . CHAPTER I. On the Cognizance xii CONTENTS .
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... doctrine of logicians , we are led to suppose that our knowledge begins in an accurate and minute acquaintance with the characteristical properties of individual objects ; and that it is only by the slow exercise of comparison and ...
... doctrine of logicians , we are led to suppose that our knowledge begins in an accurate and minute acquaintance with the characteristical properties of individual objects ; and that it is only by the slow exercise of comparison and ...
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... doctrine of probabilities who will dispute the soundness or accuracy of these conclusions — a doctrine not only of mathematical precision in the abstract - but whose precision is verified on the average in all the practical affairs of ...
... doctrine of probabilities who will dispute the soundness or accuracy of these conclusions — a doctrine not only of mathematical precision in the abstract - but whose precision is verified on the average in all the practical affairs of ...
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... doctrine just . " 3. Such is the opening of the controversy between Hume and Campbell on the subject of miracles - and wherewith the latter ushers in his celebrated reply to the argument of the former . We have long stood in doubt of ...
... doctrine just . " 3. Such is the opening of the controversy between Hume and Campbell on the subject of miracles - and wherewith the latter ushers in his celebrated reply to the argument of the former . We have long stood in doubt of ...
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... doctrine of probabilities admits this power of the senses to ascertain the truth even of events the most violently improbable . He puts the case of a hundred dice being thrown into , the air , and of their all falling on the same faces ...
... doctrine of probabilities admits this power of the senses to ascertain the truth even of events the most violently improbable . He puts the case of a hundred dice being thrown into , the air , and of their all falling on the same faces ...
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