 | Frank Sumner Rice - 1894 - 1062 pages
...Bishop Butler, in the opening sentence of his Analogy, *is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees, and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty to the very lowest presumption.' Proof 'beyond a reasonable doubt' is not beyond... | |
 | Henry Hughes - 1894 - 284 pages
...Religion he writes as follows :— " Probable evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees; and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. We cannot indeed say a thing is probably true... | |
 | William Gay Ballantine - 1896 - 202 pages
...As Bishop Butler has said: — " Probable evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees, and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty to the very lowest presumption. We cannot, indeed, say a thing is probably... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1896 - 514 pages
...highest, is matter of degree. T)ROBABLE evidence is essentially distinguished Jt from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees; and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. We cannot indeed say a thing is probably true... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1896 - 510 pages
...highest, is matter of degree. T)KOBABLE evidence is essentially distinguished -I- from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees ; and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. We cannot indeed say a thing is probably true... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1906 - 320 pages
...Identity 257 AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION PROBABLE evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees ; and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. We cannot indeed say a thing is probably true... | |
 | 1903 - 638 pages
...words of Butler's " Analogy : " " Probable evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees, and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty to the very lowest presumption." sub judice Us est is perhaps the safest way... | |
 | 1841 - 662 pages
...the nature of the evidence : — " Probable evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees, and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty to the very lowest presumption. We cannot, indeed, say a thing is probably... | |
 | Michael J. McClymond - 1998 - 207 pages
...rather than certainty. He writes: "Probable evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees; and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption." While to the "infinite Intelligence" of God... | |
 | L. Jonathan Cohen - 2002 - 364 pages
...to The Analogy of Religion (1736) Probable evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees; and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. And a couple of pages later he added In questions... | |
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Probable evidence is essentially distinguished from demonstrative by this, that it admits of degrees; and of all variety of them, from the highest moral certainty, to the very lowest presumption. We cannot indeed say a thing is probably true upon one... 
