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16 Feby 1813 Church II Topics Ch.6 (5)

The supposed merit and with it the expected reward being
as the improbability, and the exertion in the supposed merit and
expected reward the exertion has been as the improbability, and of such
exertion expected reward the success has the exertion has been as the improbability, and of such the result has been the procuring for the more improbable proposition or fact
the a conducive an affirmative persuasion
still more intense than for
the less improbable one.

The merit of belief
being as the absurdity
of the credendum, the
result has been
the procuring intenser
belief for a more
than for a less
improbable proposition.
Thus it is then that an adequate reward being in prospect
in favour of a to for a proposition more flagrantly palpably absurd
be obtained with more such a more intense persuasion of its verity
may be obtained as shall be come more intense than the
persuasion entertained and even by the same means
in favour of a proposition less palpably absurd. Why
Why? because the reward expected being as the exertion
bestowed, greater so it has been that, to the purpose of
obtaining the persuasion of the verity of the more palpably
absurd proposition, more a more intense greater degree of exertion
was employed than to the purpose of obtaining the
persuasion of the verity of the less palpably absurd persuasion.
Thus an adequate
reward being in
prospect forces
absurd credendum it
may obtain firmer
belief than one less so
the reward expected
being in the merit
viz. greater.

self contradictory
propositions being the
most absurd, the
belief in for them
seems to have been
equally or more
intense, than in less
absurd ones - viz
improbable matters of fact. The case in which the proportion is of the self
-contradictory kind is the case in which the falsity of
it is most palpable. Accordingly it [in this case]
in it is in favour of propositions of this description a degree
of persuasion appears to have been obtained produced as intense
at least as if not more th intense than one which
has been produced in favour of any proposition of a
description lass palpably absurd in favour of a proposition
for example of the existence of a matter of
fact in itself more or less improbable.

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Date_1	1813-02-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	005	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	240	Info in main headings field	church
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1809
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	2657
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