Gleanings of Past Years, 1844-1878: Personal and literary, Volume 2John Murray, 1879 |
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... highest authority in matters directly connected with Christianity . But even that authority is not entitled to implicit and blind obedience . Why ? Because the authenticity of those writings is only an historical probability . * . " The ...
... highest authority in matters directly connected with Christianity . But even that authority is not entitled to implicit and blind obedience . Why ? Because the authenticity of those writings is only an historical probability . * . " The ...
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... highest duty to observe in act , and to maintain in undisputed authority . 31. First , we hold that it is only by a licence of speech that the term knowledge can be applied to any of our human perceptions . For as nothing can in the ...
... highest duty to observe in act , and to maintain in undisputed authority . 31. First , we hold that it is only by a licence of speech that the term knowledge can be applied to any of our human perceptions . For as nothing can in the ...
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... highest degree . Between that point , and the point at which a proposition becomes improbable , and a just understanding inclines to its rejection , an infinity of shades of likelihood intervene . For example : where the exclusion of ...
... highest degree . Between that point , and the point at which a proposition becomes improbable , and a just understanding inclines to its rejection , an infinity of shades of likelihood intervene . For example : where the exclusion of ...
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... highest degree which utterly extinguishes doubt , but in every diversity of degree so long as any appreciable portion of comparative likelihood remains , although many of these degrees may be hampered with very considerable doubt as ...
... highest degree which utterly extinguishes doubt , but in every diversity of degree so long as any appreciable portion of comparative likelihood remains , although many of these degrees may be hampered with very considerable doubt as ...
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... highest degree of intellectual certainty in order to be honestly and obediently received ; and that the very same principles which govern action in common life , cognisable by common sense , are those which , fortified ( we should hold ) ...
... highest degree of intellectual certainty in order to be honestly and obediently received ; and that the very same principles which govern action in common life , cognisable by common sense , are those which , fortified ( we should hold ) ...
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