 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1889 - 928 sayfa
...of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what Agnosticism asserts ; and, in my opinion, it...disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions. The justification of the Agnostic principle lies in the success which follows upon its application,... | |
 | 1889 - 784 sayfa
...of any proposition, unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what Agnosticism asserts; and, In my opinion, it is...are propositions which men ought to believe without logical scientific evidence." These two definitions, it is evident, are not the same ; they are not... | |
 | William Henry Bennett - 1893 - 448 sayfa
...logically justifies that certainty." ' With the agnostic, he must " deny and repudiate as immoral, the contrary doctrine, that there are propositions...profession of disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions."3 For himself, at any rate, the logical justification of his faith must be ample and... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 472 sayfa
...of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what Agnosticism asserts ; and, in my opinion, it...disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions. The justification of the Agnostic principle lies in the success which follows upon its application,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 478 sayfa
...of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is -what Agnosticism asserts; and, in my opinion, it...are propositions which men ought to believe, without 1 logically satisfactory evidence ; and that repro/ bation ought to attach to the profession of disbelief... | |
 | 1889 - 900 sayfa
...of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what agnosticism asserts ; and, in my opinion, it...disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions. The justification of the agnostic principle lies in the success which follows upon its application,... | |
 | Henry Wace - 1895 - 378 sayfa
...of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies the certainty. This is what Agnosticism asserts, and, in my opinion, it is...are propositions which men ought to believe, without logical and satisfactory evidence ; and that reprobation ought to attach to the profession of disbelief... | |
 | Henry Wace - 1895 - 392 sayfa
...the contrary doctrine, that there are propositions which men ought to believe, without logical and satisfactory evidence ; and that reprobation ought...disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions." Now such a statement raises an issue respecting the grounds of belief, which is independent of the... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman - 1896 - 200 sayfa
...open-mindedness, and a resolute determination to believe what the facts warrant, neither more nor less. The doctrine that there are propositions which men ought...to believe without logically satisfactory evidence, or (in Dr; Newman's words) that " religious error is, in itself, of an immoral nature," is abhorrent... | |
 | 1902 - 732 sayfa
...of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what agnosticism asserts; and, in my opinion, it is...disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions." 2 This, then, is the sort of " faith " which agnosticism both allows and requires. I submit, therefore,... | |
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This principle may be stated in various ways, but they all amount to this : that it is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is... 
