 I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it ;...  An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - Page 326by John Henry Newman - 1846 - 453 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Locke - 1824 - 518 pages
...they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry : and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining...not truth in the love of it ; loves not truth for truth-sake, but for some other by-end. For the evidence that any proposition is true (except such as... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1824 - 702 pages
...they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry: and I slunk there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining...proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyoud this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it; loves not truth for... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Theology - 1826 - 420 pages
...they are so. Flow a man may know whether he be so in earnest is worth inquiry ; and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining...assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of h; loves not truth for truth's sake, but for some other by end. For the evidence that any proposition... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 432 pages
...they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry : and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining...beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives no truth in the love of it; loves not truth for truth-sake, but for some other by-end. For the evidence... | |
 | John Locke - 1828 - 422 pages
...they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry : and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining...beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives no truth in the love of it; loves not truth for truth-sake, but for some other by-end. For the evidence... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 536 pages
...amongst those who persuade themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry : and I think there is this one unerring...with greater assurance than the proofs it is built on will warrant. "Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the... | |
 | John Locke - 1831 - 458 pages
...amongst those who persuade themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry : and I think there is this one unerring...with greater assurance than the proofs it is built on will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the... | |
 | John Macculloch - Geology - 1831 - 504 pages
...disputed. " How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth enquiry ; and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz., the not entertaining...with greater assurance than the proofs it is built on will warrant." If, throughout this work, I have taken this rule for a guide, so have I striven to... | |
 | Philippus Anti-Osiander (pseud.) - Justification (Christian theology). - 1831 - 64 pages
...Whately's B impton Lectures. 41 regard to Truth has been laid down by the philosopher, namely — " not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance, than the proofs, it is built upon will warrant. — Whatever credit we give to any proposition, more than it receives from the principles and proofs... | |
 | Great Britain - 1852 - 576 pages
...they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry ; and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz., the not entertaining...it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond tbis measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it ; loves not truth for truth-sake,... | |
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