An Introduction to the Study of Moral Evidence: Or, of that Species of Reasoning which Relates to Matters of Fact and Practice : with an Appendix, on Debating for Victory, and Not for TruthC. & J. Rivington, 1808 - 203 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 94 - Caesar, or of any other man. For suppose a number of common facts so and so circumstanced, of which one had no kind of proof, should happen to come into one's thoughts; every one would, without any possible doubt, conclude them to be false. And the like may be said of a single common fact.
Σελίδα 93 - There is a very strong presumption against common speculative truths, and against the most ordinary facts, before the proof of them; which yet is overcome by almost any proof. There is a presumption of millions to one, against the story of Caesar, or of any other man.
Σελίδα 178 - Among the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates, and credulity encourages.
Σελίδα 109 - If any of these books were disputed at first, but on examination were admitted, they are confirmed by their trial.
Σελίδα iii - ... moral evidence may produce a variety of degrees of assent, from suspicion to moral certainty. For, here, the degree of assent depends upon the degree in which the evidence on one side preponderates, or exceeds that on the other. And, as this preponderancy may vary almost infinitely, so likewise may the degrees of assent. For a few of these degrees, though but for a few, names have been invented.
Σελίδα ix - For, it is frequently the only light afforded us to form our opinions of facts and to regulate our conduct with respect to them. Without attending to it, we can neither act, nor cease to act. We cannot even subsist without acting upon it; since it cannot be demonstrated that our food will not poison, instead of nourishing us. Instead, therefore, of contemning it on account of its inferiority, it becomes us to improve to the utmost, the light which it affords, by qualifying ourselves to apply it as...
Σελίδα 126 - ... 2. Never to convict any person of murder or manslaughter, till at least the body be found dead; on account of two instances he mentions, where persons were executed for the murder of others, who were then alive, but missing.
Σελίδα 126 - Never to convict a man for stealing the goods of a person unknown, merely because he will give no account how he came by them, unless an actual felony be proved of such goods; and, 2. Never to convict any person of murder or manslaughter till at least the body be found dead ; on account of two instances he mentions where persons were executed for the murder of others who were then alive but missing.
Σελίδα 125 - In our criminal jurisprudence there is a maxim, deservedly eulogised, that it is better that ten guilty persons should escape, than that one innocent man should suffer...