| Frank Sumner Rice - 1894 - Страниц: 1062
...Bishop Butler, in the opening sentence of his Analogy, *is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees, and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty to the very lowest presumption.' Proof 'beyond a reasonable doubt' is not beyond... | |
| Henry Hughes - 1894 - Страниц: 284
...Religion he writes as follows :— " Probable evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees; and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. We cannot indeed say a thing is probably true... | |
| William Gay Ballantine - 1896 - Страниц: 202
...As Bishop Butler has said: — " Probable evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees, and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty to the very lowest presumption. We cannot, indeed, say a thing is probably... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1896 - Страниц: 514
...highest, is matter of degree. T)ROBABLE evidence is essentially distinguished Jt from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees; and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. We cannot indeed say a thing is probably true... | |
| William Ewart Gladstone - 1896 - Страниц: 510
...highest, is matter of degree. T)KOBABLE evidence is essentially distinguished -I- from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees ; and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. We cannot indeed say a thing is probably true... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1906 - Страниц: 320
...Identity 257 AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION PROBABLE evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees ; and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. We cannot indeed say a thing is probably true... | |
| 1903 - Страниц: 638
...words of Butler's " Analogy : " " Probable evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees, and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty to the very lowest presumption." sub judice Us est is perhaps the safest way... | |
| 1841 - Страниц: 662
...the nature of the evidence : — " Probable evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees, and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty to the very lowest presumption. We cannot, indeed, say a thing is probably... | |
| Michael J. McClymond - 1998 - Страниц: 207
...rather than certainty. He writes: "Probable evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees; and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption." While to the "infinite Intelligence" of God... | |
| L. Jonathan Cohen - 2002 - Страниц: 364
...to The Analogy of Religion (1736) Probable evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees; and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. And a couple of pages later he added In questions... | |
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