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Evidence II

Credib

The interest created
by a wager is more
than double that
created by hire
to the same amount

2.

Interest may be 1
natural or 2 artificial,
as in case
of hire and wagers

Hearsay

3

Hearsay evidence
may be weakned
by the paucity of
witnesses at each
step indefinitely:
but can not be
strengthen'd up to
first-hand evidence.

Credib.

4

Cautions against
latent interest.

5

Passion for the
marvellous - generated
by pleasure
of curiosity.

6

Variety of story-telling —
pleasure
of self-recommendation.

7.

Persisting seriously
in a story first
told negligently.
Fear of reputation
of mendacity .. natural
sanction.

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Credib.

8.

Analogy not ill understood
by the
common run of
men

9.

Therefore they have
no ground for [examining
scrutinizing strictly into
the connection between]
the circumstances
of a fact
at first sight extra-ordinary
Instance Electrical
gold leaf which
may have seemed
as thick as a pane
of glass

Facts

10

Knowledge respects
1. actuality. 2.
causality. Instance
Vespasian's cure

Credib.

11

Observation may
be imperfect for
want of comprising
all the circumstances.
Inst. Elect. Gold-leaf.

12

Testimony Observations as applied
to causality
amounts only
to belief opinion.

Vestigial evidence )( testimonial.

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Identifier: | JB/051/035/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-21
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	035	Info in main headings field	evidence ii
Image	001	Titles	credit / hearsay / facts / ground
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	16200
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