The Problem of Certainty in English Thought 1630–1690Springer Netherlands, 1963 - 159 páginas |
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... assenting to anything intensity of assent must be proportioned to the evidence ; to each kind of evidence there corresponds a kind or degree of assent , and as the evidence increases or decreases so does one's certainty . Depending upon ...
... assenting to anything intensity of assent must be proportioned to the evidence ; to each kind of evidence there corresponds a kind or degree of assent , and as the evidence increases or decreases so does one's certainty . Depending upon ...
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... assent Wilkins considers specifically their connection in the context of religion . In matters of faith there is required only as much evidence as an honest person who is reasonable and teachable would need to sway his assent . Evidence ...
... assent Wilkins considers specifically their connection in the context of religion . In matters of faith there is required only as much evidence as an honest person who is reasonable and teachable would need to sway his assent . Evidence ...
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... assent , one is justified in assenting on the ground that failure to do so might have worse consequences in the long run than would assent . One of the tendencies noted in such writers as Tillotson and Wilkins was the disparity between ...
... assent , one is justified in assenting on the ground that failure to do so might have worse consequences in the long run than would assent . One of the tendencies noted in such writers as Tillotson and Wilkins was the disparity between ...
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The Theory of Certainty Secularized | 49 |
The Theory of Certainty in its Scientific Context | 90 |
15 | 96 |
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absolute certainty accepted admits argues arguments Aristotelian assent assurance atheism Bacon belief causes Chillingworth and Tillotson Christian Church claims concerning conclusions controversy degree of certainty demonstration Descartes developed doctrine doubt error Essay existence experience faculties Francis Bacon Glanvill's human Hume hypothesis Ibid ideas idols infallible certainty intuition John Locke John Tillotson John Wilkins Joseph Glanvill judgment justified kind of certainty kind of evidence kind of proof known levels of certainty Locke's London man's mathematical matters of fact metaphysical mind moral certainty Natural Philosophy Natural Religion Newton Novum Organum object observed occurs Opticks Oxford physical possible present Principia principles probability problem of certainty propositions reason relation religious Robert Boyle Robert Hooke Royal Society Rule of Faith Sadducismus Triumphatus says Scholium scripture sense perception Seventeenth Century skepticism structure of nature testimony theological theory of certainty true truth understanding Vanity of Dogmatizing views William Chillingworth witches writings