 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 716 pages
...certain criterion of tnitli. But, with respect to the conduct of life, and the pursuit of happiness, probable appearances are a sufficient guide, because...unreasonable not to allow some degree of credit to tliose witnesses who commonly give a true report. ACADEMY, in Grecian antiquity, a large villa in one... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 546 pages
...correspond to the real nature of things, and that there is no infallible method of determining when they are true or false, and consequently that they afford no...mind, in the casual occurrence of any single image, perceives in it nothing contrary to truth and nature ; the second degree of probability arises, when... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 544 pages
...correspond to the real nature of things, and that there is no infallible method of determining when they are true or false, and consequently that they afford no...mind, in the casual occurrence of any single image, perceives in it nothing contrary to truth and nature ; the second degree of probability arises, when... | |
 | William Nicholson - Arts - 1819 - 432 pages
...certain criterion of truth. But, with respect to the conduct of life, and the pursuit of happiness, probable appearances are a sufficient guide, because...to those witnesses who commonly give a true report. ACADEMY, in Grecian antiquity, a large villa in one of the suburbs of Athens, •vvhsre the sectofphilosopherscaUed... | |
 | Charles Anthon - Classical dictionaries - 1841 - 800 pages
...that they afford no certain criterion of truth. Nevertheless, with respect to the conduct of life, Carneades held that probable appearances are a sufficient guide, because it is unreasonable that some degree of credit should not be allowed to those witnesses who commonly give a true report.... | |
 | sir William Cathcart Boyd - 1844 - 502 pages
...true, or false, and therefore that they afford no real criterion of truth. Nevertheless, in regard to the conduct of life, and the pursuit of happiness,...accurate examination ; the lowest degree of probability taking place where the mind, in the casual occurrence of any single image, perceives in it nothing... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1849 - 446 pages
...nature of things; and that there is no infallible method of determining when they are true or false. Nevertheless, with respect to the conduct of life...to those witnesses who commonly give a true report. Of probabilities Carneades made the following scale: —The lowest degree was, where the mind, in the... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 420 pages
...nature of things ; and that there is no infallible method of determining when they are true or false. Nevertheless, with respect to the conduct of life...to those witnesses who commonly give a true report. Of probabilities Carneades made the following scale : — The lowest degree was, where the mind, in... | |
 | Charles Anthon - Classical dictionaries - 1869 - 1482 pages
...that they afford no certain criterion of truth. Nevertheless, with respect to the conduct of life, Carneades held that probable appearances are a sufficient guide, because it is unreasonable that some degree of credit should not be allowed to those witnesses who commonly give a true report.... | |
 | Charles Anthon - Classical dictionaries - 1881 - 1486 pages
...afford no certain criterion of truth. Nevertheless, with respect to the conduct of life, Carneados held that probable appearances are a sufficient guide, because it is unreasonable that some degree of credit should not be allowed to those witnesses who commonly give a true report.... | |
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He maintained, that they do not always correspond to the real nature of things, and that there is no infallible method of determining when they are true or false, and consequently that they afford no ce'rtain criterion of truth. Nevertheless, with respect... 
