An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With the Notes And Illustrations of ...
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With the Notes And Illustrations of ...
Locke John
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In this, all the affreemenU,vTo and con, otight to be examined before we come to ajudamevU, — Probability wanting that intuitive evidence which inmllibly determines the understanding, and pro* duces certain knowledge, the mind, if it would proceed rationally ought to examine all the grounds of probability, and see Ylom they make more or less for or against any proposition, before it assents to or dissents from it ; and upon a due balancing the whole, reject or receive it with a more or less fir...m assent pro- portionably to tbe preponderancy of the greater grounds of pro- bability on one side or the other. For example :^ If I myself see a man walk on the ice, it is past probability, it is knowledge. But if another tells me he saw a man in Eng- land, in the midst of a sharp winter, walk upon water hardened with cold ; this has so great conformity with what is usually observed to happen, that I am disposed, by the nature of the thing itself to assent to it^ unless some manifest suspicion attend the relation of that matter-of-fact.
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