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" Logic is not the science of Belief, but the science of Proof, or Evidence. In so far as belief professes to be founded on proof, the office of logic is to supply a test for ascertaining whether or not the belief is well grounded. "
Logic: Designed as an Introduction to the Study of Reasoning - Page 144
by John Leechman - 1864 - 209 pages
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 6

Christianity - 1843 - 750 pages
...whether those antecedent data be general propositions, or particular observations and perceptions. Logic is not the science of Belief, but the science of Proof, or Evidence." — Vol. ip 10. To draw inferences has been said to be the great business of life. While each pursuit...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 6

Christianity - 1843 - 744 pages
...whether those antecedent data be general propositions, or particular observations and perceptions. Logic is not the science of Belief, but the science of Proof, or Evidence."—Vol. ip 10. To draw inferences has been said to be the great business of life. While each...
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The Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 1

1848 - 546 pages
...that portion of our knowledge which consists of inferences from truths previously known. . . . Logic is not the science of Belief, but the science of Proof, or Evidence." " The distinction is, that the science or knowledge of the particular subject-matter furnishes the...
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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected ..., Volume 1

John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1851 - 528 pages
...whether those antecedent data be general propositions, or particular observations and perceptions. Logic is not the science of Belief, but the science of Proof, or Evidence. In so far as belief professes to be founded on proof, the office of logic is to supply a test for ascertaining...
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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of ...

John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1852 - 640 pages
...whether those antecedent data be general propositions, or particular observations and perceptions. Logic is not the science of Belief, but , the science of...Proof, or Evidence. So far forth as belief professes to 1 be founded upon proof, the office of logic is to supply a test for ascertaining whether or not the...
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The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian ...

Theology - 1856 - 984 pages
...whether those antecedent data be general propositions, or particular observations and perceptions. Logic is not the science of belief, but the science of proof,...test for ascertaining whether or not the belief is well-grounded. With the claims which any proposition has to belief on its own intrinsic evidence, that...
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The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, Volume 28

Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1856 - 784 pages
...those antecedent data be general propositions, or particular observations and perceptions. Logic ia not the science of belief, but the science of proof,...test for ascertaining whether or not the belief is well-grounded. With the claims which any proposition has to belief on its own intrinsic evidence, that...
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Inspiration Not Guidance, Nor Intuition, Or, The Plenary Inspiration of the ...

Eleazar Lord - Bible - 1858 - 344 pages
...portion of our knowledge which consists of inferences from truths previously known, . . . and that logic is not the science of belief, but the science of proof or evidence,'' is by itself unexceptionable. But the towering fallacy of his statements, " that the truths known by...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

Great Britain - 1864 - 974 pages
...origin») premises from which all others are inferred." " In so far as belief profene» to be founded on proof, the office of logic is to supply a test for...ascertaining whether or not the belief is well grounded." " Nearly the whole, not only of science, but of human conduct, ia amenable to the authority of logic....
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A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the ..., Volume 2

William Thomas Brande - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 992 pages
...science of belief, but the science of proof or evidence. In so far as belief profess* s to be founded on proof, the office of logic is to supply a test for...ascertaining whether or not the belief is well grounded.' We are thus brought to a question of paramount importance. ' As all inference, consequently all proof,...
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