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Indirect Legislation

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as many different chances or proportions as numbers
can express: and so likewise between the chance
of one to one and the chance of one to infinity
or infinity to one on the other side. In like manner
may there be as many different degrees
between absolute persuasion on one side and
absolute doubt; and again between absolute doubt
and absolute persuasion on the other side.
The question is then which is the greater
mischief or danger of the two, taking the article of probability
into the account: the danger of a man's
being made to suffer though not guilty by
being made to betake himself by to this course of
livelyhood: and the danger of coercion his betaking
himself to similar enormities [upon the supposition
that he was guilty] for want of such precaution.
This it is evident will depend in a
certain degree upon the ratio of the apparent
chances in favour of the supposition of his
guilt to the chances against that supposition:
and that ratio may be great enough to warrant
the subjecting him to the lesser evil that
may be attendant on such the coercion in question without being great
enough to warrant the subjecting him to the greater
evil

Identifier: | JB/087/082/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	082	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f57 / f58 / f59 / f60
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27607
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