The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 3R. Carter, 1841 |
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Page 36
... sort of general proportion between the evidence for a thing and the impression of its credibility . Yet who can take account of these impressions ? Who can take an accurate measure of their inten- sity ? Who can construct a relative ...
... sort of general proportion between the evidence for a thing and the impression of its credibility . Yet who can take account of these impressions ? Who can take an accurate measure of their inten- sity ? Who can construct a relative ...
Page 38
... sort of peculiar faculty , analogous , both in its origin and in its use , to the coup d'œil of the military engineer , or to the quick and sure tact of the medical practitioner , in marking the diagnostics of disease . " " An anecdote ...
... sort of peculiar faculty , analogous , both in its origin and in its use , to the coup d'œil of the military engineer , or to the quick and sure tact of the medical practitioner , in marking the diagnostics of disease . " " An anecdote ...
Page 68
... sort , in other houses beside our own- and each of which has never been known to pre- sent a false indication in the whole course of human experience . The concurrent testimony of two such instruments yields the probability of a ...
... sort , in other houses beside our own- and each of which has never been known to pre- sent a false indication in the whole course of human experience . The concurrent testimony of two such instruments yields the probability of a ...
Page 81
... sort and to discriminate - and the precise office of experience is , to enable it to do so . This is all the amount of the growing diffidence which Dr. Campbell speaks of . In the one case , the child has experienced that all impulsion ...
... sort and to discriminate - and the precise office of experience is , to enable it to do so . This is all the amount of the growing diffidence which Dr. Campbell speaks of . In the one case , the child has experienced that all impulsion ...
Page 89
... sort of matter , and the insonorousness of sand another sort of matter , leads us to count on the truth of one sort of testimony , and the falsehood of another sort of testimony . Dr. Campbell , by making our faith in testimony a ...
... sort of matter , and the insonorousness of sand another sort of matter , leads us to count on the truth of one sort of testimony , and the falsehood of another sort of testimony . Dr. Campbell , by making our faith in testimony a ...
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