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16 Feb y 1813 Church II Topics Ch
16 Feb y 1813

Church II Topics Ch.6

A man being thus

thus urged to this

freely deceptive

process, as it is

by exertion his end

is to be attained, the

more exertion, the

more merit. But

the more clearly

false a proposition

is the more exertion

is

necessary to

produce belief in it.

By the conjunct mass of punishment and reward considered

as being so thus about to be applied, an interest a mass of interest has been created

[by which a man is has been led] or a mass of force, a matter by which

he is urged to do whatsoever depends upon

his will towards rendering his judgment to embrace

the persuasion proposed. Towards this end what is in his in the

power power of his will to do is to set to work to employ his exertion in the way and to apply in and to his understanding and judgment the above mentioned process

above described under the appellation of the freely-deceptive

process. But sure it is by such that the

object, if it at all be attained will be attained, hence [+]

in so far as reward

is the species of inducement

looked to

the more strenuous the exertion the greater or more certain

will the prospect of reward naturally appears to be.

In so far as depends upon exertion, the probability of

success being as the magnitude or intensity of the exertion,

hence the idea of merit will attach itself not only to

success but to the exertion upon which that success

depends. But supposing success attained — attained

by exertion, the more plainly the falsity of the

proposition is - in other words the greater the degree in which

to an eye by which it were permitted to be viewed will

to the purpose of forming an indigenous persuasion in

relation to it, the falsity of it would be made manifest,

the greater will naturally have been necessary to be employed, and

employed accordingly in the production of it.

The more palpably

absurd any proposition

the more exertion necessary

to believe it. Merit

& reward being as the

the exertion are as the

absurdity

The more palpably absurd any proposition is the

greater the exertion necessary to produce by means of the

freely-deceptive or self-deceptive process a persuasion of the

verity of it the merit, being as the exertion is as the

absurdity, and the reward being as the merit is also as the absurdity

For Thus For thus Thus the absurdity

of the proposition

is the increase of the

exertion employed

in producing

a persuasion of its verity.

of the verity of it.
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    The supposed merit and with it the expected reward being

    as the improbability, and the exertion in the supposed merit and

    expected reward the exertion has been as the improbability, and of such

    exertion expected reward the success the exertion has been as the improbability, and of such the result has been the procuring for the more improbable proposition or fact

    a conducive an affirmative persuasion

    still more intense than for

    the less improbable one.

    The merit of belief

    being as the absurdity

    of the credendum, the

    result has been

    the procuring intenser

    belief for a more

    than for a less

    improbable proposition.

    Thus it is then that an adequate reward being in prospect

    in favour of a to for a proposition more flagrantly palpably absurd

    such a more intense persuasion of its verity

    may be obtained as shall be come more intense than the

    persuasion entertained and even by the same means

    in favour of a proposition less palpably absurd.

    Why? because the reward expected being as the exertion

    bestowed, so it has been that, the purpose of

    obtaining persuasion of the verity of the more palpably

    absurd proposition, a more intense greater degree of exertion

    was employed than the purpose of obtaining the

    persuasion of the verity of the less palpably absurd persuasion.

    Thus an adequate

    reward being in

    prospect forces

    absurd credendum it

    may obtain firmer

    belief than one less so

    the reward expected

    being in the merit

    viz. greater.

    self contradictory

    propositions being the

    most absurd, the

    belief in them

    seems to have been

    equally or more

    intense, than in less

    absurd ones - viz

    improbable matters of fact.

    The case in which the proportion is of the self

    -contradictory kind is the case in which the falsity of

    it is most palpable. Accordingly [in this case]

    it is in favour of propositions of this description a degree

    of persuasion appears to have been obtained produced as intense

    at least as if not more intense than one which

    has been produced in favour of any proposition of a

    description lass palpably absurd in favour of a proposition

    for example of the existence of a matter of

    fact in itself more or less improbable.
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    (3)

    Thus it may be seen

    that & how, a proposition

    more apparently false

    may obtain firmer credence than

    one less apparently so.

    By the same considerations it has been or may be rendered

    apparent, that and how it is that — a proposition

    the falsity of which [+]

    would, to any eye

    by which it should be

    permitted to be viewed

    to the purpose of forming

    in relation to it a

    persuasion of the indigenous

    kind, to

    (is) in a greater degree manifest,

    shall be made to obtain a stronger persuasion in affirmance of its verity)

    than a proposition the falsity of which would, as above

    be in a lesser degree manifest.

    This case is where

    the instruments of

    the forcible

    process consists in

    eventual rewards

    & punishment.

    This is the case The case here in question is that

    in which, with or without the intervention and assistance of a body

    of intellectual authority produced by means of it

    produced by its operation on others, the instrument by

    which an operation a process of the forcibly deceptive kind

    is performed carried in, consists of a boundless mass of evil good

    considered regarded as operatives in the character of an

    eventual punishment, in conjunction with a boundless

    mass of good operating in the character of

    an eventual reward.

    Thus merit is

    attached to the

    reward producing

    belief - demerit

    & guilt to the contrary.

    This being in some

    measure the

    of the words.

    Such is the case where, in the of him the being

    free at whose hands the punishment or the reward eventual punishment or reward

    is expected the idea of merit is considered

    as attached to the act of embracing the persuasion

    in question, or that of demerit — in other words

    guilt to the act of embracing the opposite persuasion one:

    For this in so far as it has any is the import attached

    respectively to those words: merit, a probable source

    of reward: demerit, a probable source of punishment.
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    Part 5. Power over

    1 Forcibly deceptive process needful the absurdity of the persuasion ( 2)

    2. Thence employment of its of that absurdity in the eyes of the employers

    3. declared persuasion of the as the

    From the above

    view of the deception

    process these conclusions

    may be

    drawn.

    From this view of the view thus given of the nature

    and power of the forcibly deceptive process the following

    conclusions of a nature more or less intimately connected closely applying to

    with many it should since be deduced.

    1. Declarations of

    credence - palpably

    false may be produced

    on any

    subject.

    1. By means of this process, on any subject whatsoever

    declarations of persuasion declarations to any degree palpably absurd

    palpably false as well

    as to any degree absurd may be produced.

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    mode in which it was applied have or have has or has not

    been handed down by history, that in the case of the

    several religions the falsity of which is by the religionists

    of the religion of Jesus, as well as by non-religionists

    in general recognized, the adherence to their several religions

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