The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth: Or, The Study of the Inductive Philosophy, Considered as Subservient to Theology |
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... reason and truth find their efforts approved and encouraged by those whose situation in the Church silences all cavils ; and in no instance is this more gratifying than when those who are now in the position to confer that sanction have ...
... reason and truth find their efforts approved and encouraged by those whose situation in the Church silences all cavils ; and in no instance is this more gratifying than when those who are now in the position to confer that sanction have ...
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... reason ; which , indeed , it is generally safer and better to avoid , and condemn altogether . Such is the confusion of ideas very commonly prevalent ; and which it is even considered impious to attempt to expose ! Yet , at the hazard ...
... reason ; which , indeed , it is generally safer and better to avoid , and condemn altogether . Such is the confusion of ideas very commonly prevalent ; and which it is even considered impious to attempt to expose ! Yet , at the hazard ...
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... reason downwards from abstract principles to natural laws and pheno- mena : the inductive , on the contrary , ascends from observed phenomena to general laws and abstract principles . In its more limited sense , however , " induction ...
... reason downwards from abstract principles to natural laws and pheno- mena : the inductive , on the contrary , ascends from observed phenomena to general laws and abstract principles . In its more limited sense , however , " induction ...
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... reason- able confidence can we make such inference ? For instance , suppose that feeling a number of balls in a bag , we take out a few , and , finding them white , infer that all the balls in the bag are white : is this a legitimate ...
... reason- able confidence can we make such inference ? For instance , suppose that feeling a number of balls in a bag , we take out a few , and , finding them white , infer that all the balls in the bag are white : is this a legitimate ...
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... reason why one should be white because others are so ; any supposable connexion between the circumstance of the balls being together in the bag , and their colour . There is no tendency to fancy or expect it . On the other hand , in the ...
... reason why one should be white because others are so ; any supposable connexion between the circumstance of the balls being together in the bag , and their colour . There is no tendency to fancy or expect it . On the other hand , in the ...
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