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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PART I. Of The Standard Of Truth. THE love of truth has ever been accounted a good principle. Where it is known to prevail, we expect; to find integrity and fteadinefs; a temper of mind favourable to every virtue, and tending in an eminent degree .to public utility. To have no concern for the truth, to be falfe and fallacious, is a character which no perfon who is not utterly abandoned would chufe to bear; it is a character from which we expect nothing but levity and inconfiftence. Truth feems to be confidered by all mankind as fomething fixed, unchangeable, and eternal 5 it may therefore be thought, that to vindicate the permanency of truth is to difpute without an ad- verfary. And indeed, if thefe queflions were propofed in general terms, ? Is there fuch a thing as truth ? Are truth and falfehood different and oppofite ? Is truth permanent and eternal ? ? few perfons would be hardy enough to anfwer in the negative. Attempts, however, have been made, fometimes through inadvertence, and fometimes (I fear) from defign, to undermine the foundations of truth, truth, and to render their ftability queftion- able; and thefe attempts have been fo vi- goroufly forwarded, and fo often renewed, that they now conftitute a great part of what is called the philofophy of the human mind. It is difficult, perhaps impoffible, to give a definition of Truth. But we mall endeavour to give fuch a defcription of it, as may make others underftand what we mean by the word. The definitions of former writers are not fo clear, nor fo accurate, as could be wifhed. Thefe therefore we mall overlook, without feeking either to explain or to correct them; and fhall fatisfy ourfelves with taking notice of fome of the mental phenomena that attend the perception of truth. This feems to be the fafef...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217471220 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217471226 |
| Weight | 0.78 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 In |
| List Price | $19.94 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 238 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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