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C 9

Of Perjury Falshoods

From p.
In what For the ways in which a declaration may be false with
respect to the fact itself see Tit [Unlawful Defamation]
over [False] and Tit. [Evidence] § ...
Back To p. 39.

From p. 7 13. No 1
Doubt, what not susceptible of degrees Doubt is the mean term between belief and
disbelief. Doubt therefore is not properly susceptible
of degrees. It is only belief and disbelief
that are properly susceptible of degrees.

Belief and disbelief, how measured: The several conceivable degrees of belief and disbelief
may be measured and expressed by the
ratios of chances: nor is there any other way of
measuring or expressing them. When it would appear
to a man (were he to consider the matter
in this light) that the chances in favour of the
fact's having happen'd are to there the chances
in favour of it's not having happen'd as a
given number (so suppose) to the same number,
he may be said to be in doubt about it:
When the former chances would appear to
him to be greater than the latter (as 11 for
example to 9) he may be said to believe it:
when less (as 9 for example to 11) he may be
said to disbelieve it.

When the former Absolute certainty — absolute belief and disbelief Absolute certainty or assurance is the
extreme limit or perfecter utmost degree of belief or disbelief:
positive certai when on the affirmative side, of dis belief: when on
the negative, of disbelief. When the chances in favour of

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Identifier: | JB/071/078/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	078	Info in main headings field	of simple falshoods
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	s. lay
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23481
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