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Title: [11 Feb 1813 p.1. Part 2. + 30 Church]

Description: 11 Feb 1813 p.1. Part 2. + 30

Church U.C.

1 p.1.

Part 2.

Persuasion affirmation belief - belief

to Truth a Doctrine.

§ 1.

Part 2. Persuasion - belief - disbelief: - faulting its intensity - how measured

1

Subject of persuasion

fact or proposition

The subject of persuasion is either this or that some

supposed matter of fact itself, or a proposition i.e. a form of words concerning some such matter of fact

bearing relation to and predicating existence or non-existence

to some such matter of fact.

2

Persuasion what

its subject 1. a fact

2. a proposition. (a)

By persuasion seems to be universally understood

an act of judgment — of the judicial faculty

of the mind — whereby some supposed matter of fact is

deemed to exist or not deemed to exist, or some proposition relative

to some matter of fact is deemed to be true or [deemed]

not to be true. (a)

(a) Note in another page

(a) Add Not to say that a

matter of fact if continually

to demand

and vice versa

3

Persuasion is belief

or disbelief - their

interconvertibility

Where, as above, the decision of the judgment is on the positive or say

the affirmative side, belief is the word most commonly employed

the word persuasion has most commonly for its

synonym the word belief; - where on the negative side,

the word disbelief. But, belief of a negative proposition,

being synonymous to disbelief of the corresponding affirmative

proposition, and disbelief of a negative synonymous to

belief of the corresponding affirmative, this interconvertibility

of terms and propositions of the positive cast with terms and

propositions of the negative cast will, to prevent confusion in

misconception, require to be kept in remembrance.

JB_005_203_001.xml

Title: [13 Feb y 1813 Church Note]

Description: 13 Feb y 1813

Church Note

A.G.

*1 p 1.

Part 2 persuasion

2 (a)

Subject of persuasion

may be matter

of fact without

proposition:

so proposition

without matter of

fact: as in the self

contradictory proposition exhibited

by established religions

Note (a)

(a) Though in many, probably in most cases, it comes to

the same thing whether the subject of persuasion to be considered

as being a supposed matter of fact or a proposition - the proposition

being in these cases a proposition relative to some supposed

matter of fact, - yet this concomitancy is not a constant one.

Matter of fact alone and not proposition is the term that

must be employed, whereas the supposed matter of fact has not

as yet been taken for the subject of discourse — of discourse

the import of which stands expressed by a determinate assemblage

of words. On the other hand proposition alone, and

not matter of fact - not even supposed matter of fact - is

the only term that can with propriety be employed,

in the case which established religions afford [unhappily]

so many pernicious and disastrous examples — viz. the

case in which by the proposition in question no matter of

fact — not so much as any supposed matter of fact —

is attested, the proposition being of the self-contradictory

class. involving in it a contradiction in terms. ++

++ Evid. Introd. Ch.

JB_005_211_001.xml

Title: [1 Jan y 1812 I + Church II]

Description: 1 Jan y 1812 I +

Church

II

Ch.6

6 §.1. Abstract

Part V

Indigent

Superceded by 3 . (3)(1)

or 1

To this place in

relation to belief.

opinion - faith -

belongs a distinction

not generally attended

but of practical

importance

To this place in relation to belief - opinion -

persuasion - assurance - faith — by which scores of all

these names it happens to the act or habitual state of the judgment

or judicial faculty, in relation to any proposition

to whatsoever be the proposition or matter of fact

in question, to be called - belongs a distinction

which is not so generally attended to as

could be wished, but which on a variety of occasions

will be found applicable to the most important

practical purposes to practical purposes of the utmost

importance.

Persuasion is

1. indigenous or 2

adaptive.

Persuasion may be distinguished into ada

indigenous and adaptive.

A persuasion in relation

to any proposition

may have

been formed on the

ground of an examination

made into

the matter by himself

or on the ground

of a supposed judgment

formed concerning

it by some other

person or persons.

The persuasion which in relation

to any supposed matter of fact or to any proposition

turning for its subject a supposed matter of fact or

any other subject, a man entertains many laws

been formed on the ground of an examination

made into the matter by himself, or on the ground

of a judgment supposed to be formed in relation to

the same matter, and therefore a persuasion entertained

concerning it, by some other person or persons

determinate or indeterminate.

When formed on the

first ground it may

be termed indigenous

- on the second

adaptive.

In so far as the ground in which it is formed

is of the first description, it may be termed indigenous:

in so far as the ground is of the other description, the persuasion

may be termed adaptive.