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Antimir Price & Campbel

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Ch. Beginning

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Of the two opposite states of things which then is it that presents itself to my judgment as most improbable? On the one hand, the verity of the state of things in question or on the other hand the verity of the proposition that in reporting what he has thus reported, the reporter was a deceiver or deceived—a person himself labouring under a deception, or a person the tendency of whose report whether to himself were or were not deceived in respect of it, was to produce deception on the part of every person by whom credence should have been given to it.

In other and more compressed language—the truth or the falshood of the report—which of them is the most improbable the verity of the report or the falsity of it?