Rationale of Judicial Evidence, Specially Applied to English Practice, From the Mss. of J. Bentham [Ed. by J.s. Mill]. (Volume 3) - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0217978142 ISBN 13: 9780217978149

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1827. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... present place, the truth is established; the inquiry is at an end. Sect. IV. -- Improbability and impossibility resolvable into disconformity to the established course of nature. An incredible fact, as contradistinguished from a verbal contradiction (whether improbable or impossible be the epithet by which the particular strength of the belief in its nonexistence is designated), owes its incredibility to one cause, and to one cause only. This cause admits of a variety of appellations. On the part of the matter of fact deposed to by the affirmative evidence, disconformity (as supposed) to the established course* * In ordinary language, the phrase would be, disconformity to some one or more of the laws of nature. The expression law of nature is figurative, metaphorical: it is a metaphor taken from the use given to the same word law in the case of a political law: it is to that source, consequently, that we must resort for an explanation of it. When a political law, the expression of an act of human will, is issued, that law emanating from recognised authority, and backed with the usual sanctions; a correspondent degree of conformity in human actions,--in the conduct of such individuals as are subject to the law,--is the customary and manifest consequence: and (human actions being events) a law, a political law, is thus a cause of conformity among events. In regard to events of a physical nature, the grand and constant object of curiosity and inquiry, is that which respects the cause: and on a subject so interesting, when men cannot come at facts, rather than have nothing, they are eager to catch at, and content themselves with, words. Between this and that group of facts, a certain conformity is observed: what is the cause of that conformity, becomes then...

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• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0217978142
• ISBN 13: 9780217978149
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