 | Joseph Butler - 1843 - 358 sider
...probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in a very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly knows to be so. Nay, further, in... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Halifax - 1844 - 414 sider
...probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly knows to be so. Nay further, in... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1848 - 632 sider
...the Chapter of Probability. as to leave the mind in very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what ne certainly knows to be so. Nay further, in... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1850 - 342 sider
...probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in very great doubt which is the truth. For surely :i man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly knows to be so. Nay, further, in... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1850 - 682 sider
...low as to leave the mind in very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really hound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly knows to be so. Nay, further, in... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1851 - 338 sider
...probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in a very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness^ as what he certainly knows to be so. Nay, further, in... | |
 | 1855 - 528 sider
...probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according 1 Butler's Analogy. Introduction, pp. xlix. 1. London : 1841. to the best of his judgment, to be for... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1857 - 514 sider
...will lay us under an abfolute and formal obligation, in point of prudence and of intereft, to a<ft upon that prefumption or low probability, though it...no more than mowing one fide of a queftion to be as fuppofable and credible as the other : nay, fuch as but amount to much lefs even than this. For numberlefs... | |
 | 1857 - 380 sider
...probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in a very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of his judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly knows to be so. Nay, further, in... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 sider
...doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. Sl1ahpeart. A man is as really bound in prudence to do what upon the whole appears, according to the best of lus judgment, to be for his happiness, as what he certainly knows to be so.— Bp. Butler.... | |
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... absolute and formal obligation, in point of prudence and of interest, to act upon that presumption or low probability, though it be so low as to leave the mind in very great doubt which is the truth. For surely a man is as really bound in prudence... 
