 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1740 - 488 pages
...Probability, though it be fo low as to leave the Mind in very great Doubt which is the Truth. For furely a Man is as really bound in Prudence, to do what upon the whole appears, according to the beft of his Judgment, to be for his Happinefs, as what he certainly knows . to be fo. Nay further,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...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 to...presumptions than these ; such as amount to no more than shewing one side of a question to be as supposable and credible as the other : nay, such as but amount... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 pages
...delivering him your letter, but find he is at present in the country. I am a little anxious to have . " the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly " knows to be so." Reasoning from analogy is reasoning from probability, arising from the resemblance of one thing to... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1813 - 496 pages
...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 to...questions of great consequence, a reasonable man will tliink it concerns him to remark lower probabilities and presumptions than these; such as amount to... | |
 | 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...happiness, as what he certainly " knows to be so." Reasoning from analogy is reasoning from probability, arising from the resemblance of one thing to... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1819 - 362 pages
...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 to do what upon the whole appears, according ts the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly knows to be so. Nay, further^... | |
 | David Bristow Baker - Skepticism - 1831 - 244 pages
...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 to...presumptions than these; such as amount to no more than shewing one side to be as suptice. It is probable, a particular medicine will be beneficial to the... | |
 | Apologetics - 1834 - 588 pages
...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 to...appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be • The story i§ told by Mr. Locke, in the chapter of Probability. for his happiness, as what he certainly... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1839 - 362 pages
...low probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in a very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence to...presumptions than these ; such as amount to no more than st.owing one side of a question to be as supposable and credible as the other ; nay, such as but amount... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Halifax - Sermons, English - 1844 - 414 pages
...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 to...presumptions than these ; such as amount to no more than shewing one side of a question to be as supposable and credible as the other : nay, such as but amount... | |
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... in matters of practice, will lay us under an 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... 
