JB/047/400/001

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25 Novr 1811
Evidence

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Be the fact what it may, between its existence and
non-existence (time and place given) there is no medium:
and thence it is, that, ascribed to facts themselves probability and improbability, with
their infinity of degrees gradations degrees, are mere figments of the imagination: of the imagination,
not to say of the tongue. But, of deg persuasive force, and persuasion
its consequence effect, negative as well as positive, disaffirmative
as well as affirmative, the number of degrees are gradation is truly infinite:
of this cause and this effect, and thereby what here is of of probability and its contrary,
in the only sense in which they are these terms are the representatives
of anything that is true.

Thence Thus it is, that probability and improbability
are neither of them anything more than relative: neither of
are better characterised as being them being anything but with relation to the person
in their</del whose mind they serve to represent the mode and degree of persuasion I which therein has
place, in relation to the fact of to which they are produced respectively applied.
Thence it is, that, though the same fact is never
at the same time, and in the same place, in itself both true and
false, instances are however in continual occurrence, in which the
same fact is both probable and improbable: probable
to Titius, improbable to Sempronius. Thence it is that, even
on the to the best-informed mind, so many rea;
facts are improbable, and taken for false, so many falsely imagined facts probable
and taken for true.

Identifier: | JB/047/400/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1811-11-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	7-8
Box	047	Main Headings	rationale of judicial evidence
Folio number	400	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d11 / e3 / f11 / f172
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	15268
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