“ In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest. ”
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“ The chain is only as strong as its weakest link, for if that fails the chain fails and the object that it has been holding up falls to the ground. ”
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“ The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules. ”
- Thomas Reid- Copy
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“ However much our late fatalists have boasted of this principle as of a law of nature… I am persuaded that, whenever they shall be pleased to give us any measure of the strength of motives distinct from their prevalence, it will appear, from experience, that the strongest motive does not always prevail. ”
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“ Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of a man. ”
- Thomas Reid- Copy
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“ It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances. ”
- Thomas Reid- Copy
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“ If no other test or measure of the strength of motives can be found but their prevailing, then this boasted principle will be only an identical proposition, and signify only that the strongest motive is the strongest motive, and the motive that prevails is the motive that prevails - which proves nothing. ”
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“ It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances. ”
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“ It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances. ”
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“ The vulgar allow that this expression implies a mind that thinks, an act of that mind which we call thinking, and an object about which we think. But, besides these three, the philosopher conceives that there is a fourth-to wit, the idea, which is the immediate object. ”
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“ It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances. ”
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“ A definition is nothing else but an explication of the meaning of a word, by words whose meaning is already known. Hence it is evident that every word cannot be defined; for the definition must consist of words; and there could be no definition, if there were not words previously understood without definition. ”
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“ A definition is nothing else but an explication of the meaning of a word, by words whose meaning is already known. Hence it is evident that every word cannot be defined; for the definition must consist of words; and there could be no definition, if there were not words previously understood without definition. ”
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“ But I have never seen any proof that there are such laws of nature, far less any proof that the strongest motive always prevails. ”
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“ Although memory gives the most irresistible evidence of my being the identical person that did such a thing, at such a time, I may have other good evidence of things which befel me, and which I do not remember: I know who bare me, and suckled me, but I do not remember these events. ”
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“ In the strict and proper sense, I take an efficient cause to be a being who had power to produce the effect, and exerted that power for that purpose. ”
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“ It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances. ”
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“ The idea is in the mind itself, and can have no existence but in a mind that thinks; but the remote or mediate object may be something external, as the sun or moon; it may be something past or future; it may be something which never existed. ”
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“ In the strict and proper sense, I take an efficient cause to be a being who had power to produce the effect, and exerted that power for that purpose. ”
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“ A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages… in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy. ”
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“ In the strict and proper sense, I take an efficient cause to be a being who had power to produce the effect, and exerted that power for that purpose. ”
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“ The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced; but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules. ”
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“ It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances. ”
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“ But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind. ”
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“ It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances. ”
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“ It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances. ”
- Thomas Reid- Copy
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“ However much our late fatalists have boasted of this principle as of a law of nature… I am persuaded that, whenever they shall be pleased to give us any measure of the strength of motives distinct from their prevalence, it will appear, from experience, that the strongest motive does not always prevail. ”
- Thomas Reid- Copy
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“ The vulgar allow that this expression implies a mind that thinks, an act of that mind which we call thinking, and an object about which we think. But, besides these three, the philosopher conceives that there is a fourth-to wit, the idea, which is the immediate object. ”
- Thomas Reid- Copy
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“ If no other test or measure of the strength of motives can be found but their prevailing, then this boasted principle will be only an identical proposition, and signify only that the strongest motive is the strongest motive, and the motive that prevails is the motive that prevails - which proves nothing. ”
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