 | William J. Henry, William Logan Harris - 1879 - 534 pages
...them, but not destroyed. Another original principle implanted in us by the Supreme Being is to confide in the veracity of others and to believe what they...be called the principle of veracity, we shall, for the want of a more proper name, call this the principle of credulity. It is unlimited in children until... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - 1895 - 894 pages
...* * * Another original principle, implanted in us by the Supreme Being, is a disposition to confide in the veracity of others, and to believe what they...the principle of veracity, we shall, for want of a proper name, call this the principle of credulity. It is unlimited in children until they meet with... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1983 - 448 pages
...destroyed. Another original principle implanted in us by the Supreme Being, is a disposition to confide in the veracity of others, and to believe what they...may be called the principle of veracity, we shall, (or want of a more proper name, call this the pnnciple of credulity. It is unlimited in children, until... | |
 | Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton - 1094 pages
...destroyed. Another original principle implanted in us by the Supreme Being, is a disposition to confide in the veracity of others, and to believe what they...counterpart to the former ; and, as that may be called the princip'e nf veracity, we shall, for want of a more proper name, call this the principle of credulity.... | |
 | Ernest Sosa - 1991 - 318 pages
.... . . Another original principle implanted in us by the Supreme Being, is a disposition to confide in the veracity of others, and to believe what they...call this the principle of credulity. . . . It is evident that, in the matter of testimony, the balance of human judgment is by nature inclined to the... | |
 | Bimal K. Matilal, A. Chakrabarti - 1994 - 404 pages
.... . . Another original principle implanted in us by the Supreme Being, is a disposition to confide in the veracity of others, and to believe what they...the counterpart to the former; and, as that may be TESTIMONY AND COHERENCE 65 called the principle of veracity, we shall, for want of a more proper name,... | |
 | Thomas Reid, Derek R. Brookes - 2000 - 380 pages
...destroyed. 10 Another original principle implanted in us by the Supreme Being, is a disposition to confide in the veracity of others, and to believe what they...credulity. It is unlimited in children, until they meet 15 with instances of deceit and falsehood: and it retains a very considerable degree of strength through... | |
 | Nicholas Wolterstorff - 2001 - 284 pages
...of veracity, says Reid, is the principle of credulity, that is, the innate disposition to "confide in the veracity of others, and to believe what they tell us" (ibid.). "The wise and beneficent Author of nature, who intended that we should be social creatures,... | |
 | Alvin I. Goldman - 2002 - 246 pages
...reliability: [An] original principle implanted in us by the Supreme Being, is a disposition to confide in the veracity of others, and to believe what they tell us.... [W]e shall call this the principle of credulity. It is unlimited in children, until they meet with... | |
 | Terence Cuneo, René van Woudenberg - 2004 - 396 pages
...The latter principle - the principle of credulity - is a disposition to, as Reid puts it, "confide in the veracity of others, and to believe what they tell us" (IHM Vl.xxiv: 194). And this too Reid takes to be a natural disposition: "It is evident that, in the... | |
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Another original principle implanted in us by the Supreme Being, is a disposition to confide in the veracity of others, and to believe what they tell us. 
