 | James Fishback - 1813 - 326 páginas
...authorities, in my inquiries. I have endeavoured to observe Mr. Locke's rules, (viz.) "not to entertain any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant;" and to "search after truth for its own sake," being assured that "whatsoever credit I give to any principle... | |
 | 362 páginas
...established opinions and rooted inclinations, — the determination (as Locke says) " to entertain a proposition, with greater assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant." This receiving " truth, not for Ihe love of it, but for some bye end," is equally the fault of the... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1818 - 432 páginas
...whether he be-so in earnest, is worth enquiry, and I think there is this one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater...assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant." These weighty sentiments, so worthy to be carried along with us in all our secular, and in all our... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 412 páginas
...whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry : and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater...plain, receives not truth in the love of it ; loves not truth for truth-sake, but for some other by-end. For the evidence that any proposition is true (except... | |
 | Daniel Waterland - 1823 - 536 páginas
...whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry: and I think there is but one unerring mark of it ; viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater...measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in love of it, loves not truth for truth's sake, but for some other by-end." Locke, b. iv. c. 19. p. 330.... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 404 páginas
...whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry : and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater...beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives no truth in the love of it; loves not truth for truth-sake, but for some other by-end. For the evidence... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1823 - 286 páginas
...whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry, and I think there is this one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater...assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant." These weighty sentiments, so worthy to be carried along with us in all our secular, and in all our... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 406 páginas
...whejther he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry : and I think '.there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than *the proofs it is built uppnA;wiTl warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 518 páginas
...whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry : and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater...plain, receives not truth in the love of it ; loves not truth for truth-sake, but for some other by-end. For the evidence that any proposition is true (except... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 702 páginas
...know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry: and I slunk there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater...proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyoud this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it; loves not truth for... | |
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I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it; loves... 
