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14 C

Of Perjury Falshoods.

From p. 11 No 1
A strong or intense belief — a weak belief. In general Upon the whole however a man's belief of a fact may
be said to be strong or intense when the number of chances
in favour of the reality of the fact appears to
him considerably much greater than the number of
those against it's reality: weak, where but
little greater. More generally

Strength or intensity of belief how measured More generally; — The strength or intensity of a man's belief
is as the ratio of the apparent chances in favour
of that the reality of the fact to that of the
apparent chances against it.

Strength of an averment, how measured. Correspondent to the strength or intensity of
the belief averred, is the strength or intensity of the
averment. The strength of an averment is as the
strength of the belief which is averred.
And this moreover may be in point of strength exactly equal to or greater
or less than the belief really entertained.
To p. 11 No. 2.

2 From p. 8. at bottom

Observations.

It is been already intimated in the text, that simple falshood
may be distinguished into ordinary falshood
and fucation. To explain the meaning, and justify


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Identifier: | JB/071/079/004"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

079

Info in main headings field

of simple falshoods

Image

004

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f11 / f12 / f13 / f14

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

alexander mavrokordatos

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23482

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