JB/047/402/001

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24 Novr 1811
Evidence

From the case in which, the facts as well as without a matter of fact being in question,
the existence of it is regarded as as being,
in one or other of these the above ways, disconformable to the established
course of nature, and on that account more or
less improbable, it may be of matter of practical use and importance to distinguish
the case where there of a self-contradictory proposition and or contradiction in terms: a
a proposition affirming the existence of a supposed matter of full disconformable in toto, as above. case in which, though to appearance the existence alone of some
matter of fact is asserted, and that matter of fact upon
the face of it an improbable one, in reality to no conceivable matter
of fact is discoverable, of which the existence and nothing
but the existence is affirmed, but one and the same matter
of fact, perhaps improbable, perhaps so far from improbable
as to be proved by continual and univeral experience,
is, under favour of a diversity in the form of expression –
in the catalogue boo assemblage of the words employed in the two cases, – asserted –
in the same breath asserted – to exist and not to exist.(a) in the same breath.

The verbal impossibility (for in this sense, though in this sense alone, is the
assertion of impossibility alone compatible with the a due and duly acknowledged
sense of human weakness) – the verbal impossibility of the
truth of a statement of this self-contradictory complection –
neither prevents it from being said to be, nor even from really
being, the subject of a sort of credence. Be it what it may, hope and fear
suffice to account for its being said to be so: – and, under
the force of these senses all powerful instruments, the power
of this will over the attention, and thence over the judgment,
suffices even to render them it so in reality.

Note 10(a)

Examples. Gorgon stated by Ovid or Virgil as
a being composed of three persons; – those persons making but
one man; – in other words but one person. 2. Another hero
of antiquity, name not recollected, who on a particular occasion was represented
as being in two distant places at the same time: in other words
as being two different individuals, and yet but one.

Identifier: | JB/047/402/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1811-11-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	10-11, 11, 11a
Box	047	Main Headings	rationale of judicial evidence
Folio number	402	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles	note 10 (a)
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d12* / e5 / f13 / f174
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	15270
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