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10 C
of Perjury Falshoods
of the fact's having happened would appear to him
to be in comparison of the chances in favour of it's not having
happen'd as a number greater than any number that can
be assigned is to the given number (10 suppose) he
may be said to have entertain an absolute certainty entire assurance of it's
having happened: where this number the or in other words absolutely entirely to
greater than any When believe it. He may be said to have
an entire assurance absolute certainty of it's not having happen'd,
or in other words absolutely entirely to disbelieve it,
when the chances in favour of it's not having
happen'd would appear to him to be to the chances in favour of it's having happen'd as a number
greater than any number that can be assigned
is to the given number 10. or in other words what comes to
the same thing as that number is to a number less than any
that can be assigned: or which comes to the same in other words
thing, when the chances in favour of it's having
happen'd would appear to him to be to those in favour of it's not having happen'd as a number less
than any that can be assigned is to the given
number 10: or in other words what comes to the same thing as that
is to a number greater than any that can be
assigned.
Intermediate degrees of belief and disbelief. Between these two extreme states of absolute entire
belief on the one hand and absolute entire disbelief
on the other are on each side of the middle
line of doubt it is plain there may be an
indefinite number of determinate degrees. But for expressing these have determinate degrees
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Identifier: | JB/071/078/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71. |
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not numbered |
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071 |
penal code |
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078 |
of simple falshoods |
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002 |
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text sheet |
2 |
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recto |
f9 / f10 |
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jeremy bentham |
s. lay |
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alexander mavrokordatos |
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23481 |
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