An introduction to the study of moral evidenceauthor, 1808 - 203페이지 |
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141 페이지 - 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...
4 페이지 - Thus, the proposition, that the three angles of a triangle are not equal to two right angles...
30 페이지 - ... but necessary under the gospel, as well as under the law. In which discourse he defines an oath in these words, or to this effect : 'An oath is a solemn appeal to God, as a witness of the truth of what we say.
109 페이지 - 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.
110 페이지 - 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.
142 페이지 - 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.
194 페이지 - 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.
32 페이지 - ... sole ground of faith in testimony. To confute this, Campbell contends, that experience is the foundation of diffidence, rather than confidence, in testimony; for infancy is credulous, and old age distrustful ; and maintains that testimony has a natural and original influence on belief. Reid says, that there are two principles implanted in our nature which correspond with each other: first, a propensity to speak the truth; and secondly, a disposition to confide in the veracity of others.
7 페이지 - ... not certainly, but only probably true. The second will be probable, only, on a supposition, that the first should, in the event, prove true : ie it is only a probability of a probability. And the third conclusion will be probable, only on a suppo§ition, that both the former should prove true ; ie it is the probability of a probability of a probability.