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Ch 6.
2 §. 1
Part

Such declaration
- and every distinduishable
part of it, is
either sincere or insincere.

Taken in the aggregate, or On the part of any each given individual the declaration
made on the occasion in question is either insincere or
sincere: and so in the case of each distinguishable part
of it. of each distinguishable proposition contained in it

Of Probability of insincerity
is - (the
amplitude of each being
as their mt and
whe of propositions
and where erroneous
as their absurdity.

The probabi Of insincerity, the probability will be - 1. as
the number of such propositions, the amplitude of each
proposition being given the probability will be inversely as
their number, inversely and in the instance of each - such proposition,
where it is common as the degree of absurdity in it when directly. (a)
(a) Saving clause for the
case where under the notion
of merit the maximum
of absurdity has produced
evidence.

Considering the
magnitude of the
good and or evil
depending on complea
declaration or
non declaration,
a man it can
the more clear
it is supposed it
will appear that
as to all these propositions
scarce & in question
scarce any one
was ever sincere.

In the case of the species of official person in question and Considering on the one hand the magnitude of the mass
of good and evil which in this instance depends upon his
compliance or non compliance with the exalted operation,
on the other hand in the case of insincerity on his part the impossibility of its being brought to
view but by his own act, compleat sincerity, at any rate
upon any other ground than that of adoptive persuasion
upon what ground the most absurdly improbable or even
the most completely impossible proposition (for of this sort such are
those self contradictory ones, which in so many instances
have obtained evidence may without much difficulty
obtain evidence, this being considered, the more thoroughly deliberately
and impartially it is by any person considered, the
more assured it is supposed will be his persuasion opinion, that
in so far as depended upon indigenous persuasion, no
one such of the vast mass of declar on the instance of there could
scarce scarce ever have existed any one individual, in
whos instance, in respect of the whole of the prodigious
mass of propositions, many of them on subjects not only of immense
extent, . but of the most abstruse and at to every human
eye obscure nature complection, the declaration made was ever sincere.




Identifier: | JB/005/251/001
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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

005

Main Headings

church of englandism

Folio number

251

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e2

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

john dickinson & c<…> 1809

Marginals

Paper Producer

a. levy

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1809

Notes public

ID Number

2668

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