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Superceded by 3 .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.