 | Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...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 - Sermons, English - 1813 - 496 pages
...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 - Judges - 1814 - 482 pages
...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 - Analogy (Religion) - 1819 - 256 pages
...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 - Analogy (Religion) - 1820 - 264 pages
...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 - Skepticism - 1831 - 244 pages
...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... | |
 | Apologetics - 1834 - 588 pages
...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 - Christianity - 1834 - 414 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Theology - 1838 - 632 pages
...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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... absolute and formal obligation, in point of prudence and of interest, to act upon that presumption or low 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... 
