JB_005_202_001.xml

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_219_001.xml

Title: [1 Jan y 1813 Church II Ch]

Description: 1 Jan y 1813

Church II

Ch 6.

2 §.1

Part

(2)

or 4

2. In course

of time by the

operation of the will

on the understanding

to produce on

the same individual

in some degree the

belief desired.

2. Another is in the course of time, in the

by means of the operation and influence of the will on the understanding,

to produce an act or state and habit a belief — a degree of persuasion

more or less intense - to the effect desired.

or 5

3. By the

instrumentality

of the declaration

of belief (true or

false) of A to

produce by the

influence of his

understanding on

d o of B. to produce

in B a degree of

persuasion more

or less intense as

above.

3. A third is — in relation to that same proposition, by the instrumentality of that

same declaration of belief, true or false, so

extorted from or purchased of A, viz. to produce by means of

the operation and influence of the state real or

supposed of his understanding upon the understanding

of B, an act or state and habit of belief — a degree of

persuasion more or less intense, as above.

Note (a)

or 5 (a)

Intensity of persuasion

expressed by

the figures commonly

denoting degrees of

probability as on

occasion of sale

of annuities.

(a) The intensity of persuasion has for its measure

the numbers by which degrees of apparent probability

are commonly expressed: the numbers expressive

of the ratios that come in question on the occasion

of such the calculations made for the purpose of the

purchase and sale of annuities - or for the purpose

and on the occasion of lotteries or games of chance.

JB_005_227_001.xml

Title: [14 Feb 1813 + Church Note]

Description: 14 Feb 1813 +

Church Note

II Topics Ch.6.

(1) *7

§.1. Abstract Part 5. Power over

persuasion

Facility here is (the adoptive ) is as the of

declaration is

supposed and the supposed probity and intelligence of each

durable

as the case of intelligence relative

intelligence in the adoptive, inversely

3. Not necessary the declaration should be or been

sincere

sincere

1. One is by

producing — no matter by what means —

on the part of .A. - a declaration of

persuasion, to the effect desired, couched in a determinate form of

words. In this manner, to that same effect

circumstances favouring, in the breast of B. a

persuasion of the adoptive kind is frequently

produced - produced without difficulty, and of course.

(a) Where declaration of credence is false proof of

falsity impossible viz. in the case of any individual

even though he should

have declared

belief in opposite propositions &c.

So long as there is an interval between the two

declarations Note (a) Where a declaration of persuasion has

more or less of falsity in it, let the falsity be ever so abundant proof

to prove to make proof of such falsity has just

been stated as being impossible an operation plainly impossible.

Yet: viz. in the instance of this or that particular individual taken

by himself. For to state a case which without very gross (and

unnecessary) imprudence can scarcely ever be realized

in contradiction to the declaration in question made

expressed (suppose) in writing suppose another

declaration also in writing made by the same person and so

opposite to it as to be

irreconcileable to it.

The two irreconcilable declarations will hardly have

better

received its their expression exactly at the

same time. . If not, let the declaration

in question be ever so completely false, defence and escape are easy:

at one time my persuasion was as per paper A: at another

time as per papers B: no breach of sincerity at either time.