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

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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.

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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

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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.