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" Another original principle, implanted in us by the Supreme Being, is a disposition to confide in the veracity of others, and to believe what they tell us. "
the monthly review or literary journal - Page 17
by severak hands - 1764
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 31

Books - 1764 - 598 pages
...truth by inftincl ; and this inftinil is the principle I have been explaining. * By this !.if:in<Sl a real connection is formed between our words and our...as that may be called the principle of veracity, we i/hall, for want of a more proper name, call this the principle of eredulity. It is unlimited in children,...
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An Examination of Dr. Reid's Inquiry Into the Human Mind on the Principles ...

Joseph Priestley - Apologetics - 1775 - 452 pages
...fentiments, p. 336. ' Another original principle implanted ' in us by the fupreme being, is a difpo' fition to confide in the veracity of * others, and to believe...that may be called the ' principle of veracity, we fhall, for want ' of a more proper name, call this the ' principle of credulity' 12. ' The belief of...
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An Inquiry Into the Human Mind: On the Principles of Common Sense

Thomas Reid - Knowledge, Theory of - 1785 - 572 pages
...latter, which they could not otherwife be. And although this connection is broken in every inftance of lying and equivocation, yet thefe inftances being...others, and to believe what they tell us. This is the countercounter-part to the former ; and as that may be called the principle of veracity ^ we {hall,...
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A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections ...

Richard Joseph Sulivan (Sie) - France - 1794 - 542 pages
...the same sentiments. There is another principle implanted in us by the Supreme Being, a disposition to confide in the veracity of others, and to believe what they tell us. This is unlimited in children, until they meet with instances of deceit and falsehood; and it retains a considerable...
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An Inquiry Into the Human Mind: On the Principles of Common Sense

Thomas Reid - Knowledge, Theory of - 1801 - 506 pages
...latter, which tfyey could not otherwife be. Ami although this connection is broken in every inltance of lying and equivocation, yet thefe inftances being...as that may be called the principle of veracity, we fhall, for want of a more proper name, call this the principle of credulity. It is unlimited in children,...
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An Inquiry Into the Human Mind: On the Principles of Common Sense

Thomas Reid - Knowledge, Theory of - 1801 - 510 pages
...although this connection is broken in every inftance of lying and equivocation, yet thefe inftances bemg comparatively few, the authority of human teftimony...counter-part to the former ; and as that may be called (be principle of veracity, we fhall, for want of a more proper name, call this the principle of credulity....
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 71

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1843 - 626 pages
...original principle,' says Dr. Reid,* ' implanted in our nature by the Supreme Being, is a disposition to confide in the veracity of others, and to believe what they tell us. This is the counterpart of the former; and as that was termed the principle of veracity, so -we shall, for want of a better...
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An Inquiry Into the Human Mind: On the Principles of Common Sense

Thomas Reid - Common sense - 1810 - 502 pages
...but not destroyed. Another original principle implanted in us by the Supreme Being, is a disposition to confide in the veracity of others, and to believe what they tell us. This is the counter-pan to the former ; and as that may be called the principle of veracity, we shall, for want...
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The Works of Thomas Reid; with an Account of His Life and Writings, Volume 1

Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1822 - 432 pages
...but not destroyed. Another original principle implanted in us by the Supreme Being, is a disposition to confide in the veracity of others, and to believe...as that may be called the principle of veracity, we shall, for want of a more proper name, call this the principle of credulity. It is unlimited in children,...
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An inquiry into the human mind, on the principles of common sense. With an ...

Thomas Reid - 1823 - 320 pages
...destroyed. Another original principle implanted in us by the Supreme Being, is a disposition to conh'de in the veracity of others, and to believe what they...as that may be called the principle of veracity, we shall for want of a more proper name, call this the principle of credulity. It is unlimited in children,...
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