 | C. Landesman - Philosophy - 1993 - 186 pages
...they are to. How a Man may know whether he be so in earnest is worth enquiry: And I think there a this one unerring mark of it, viz. The not entertaining...warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of Assent, 'tis plain receives not Truth in (he Love of it; lovei not Truth for Truth* uke, but for some other... | |
 | James Tully - History - 1993 - 354 pages
...place to prepare his mind with a love of it'. The one mark of having acquired this passion for truth is 'not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the Proofs it is built upon will warrant'. Now, there is no mention that to do otherwise after examination might be 'impossible', as before. Rather,... | |
 | Avery Dulles - Religion - 1996 - 324 pages
...caution in the acceptance of purported revelations. No proposition. he contended. should be entertained "with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant" (IV. 19.1). Reason. he asserted. "must be our last judge and guide in everything" (I VI 9. 14). Occasionally... | |
 | Dan O'Neal, Alice Blair Wesley, James Ishmael Ford - Liberalism (Religion) - 1995 - 404 pages
...Universalism, said it as well as it can be said: "One unerring mark of the love of truth," said Locke, "is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant." The third and fourth permanent elements in Unitarian Universalism have a very long history among us... | |
 | Nicholas Wolterstorff - Philosophy - 1996 - 276 pages
...sake . . . How a man may know whether he be so in earnest is worth inquiry: and I think there is this one unerring mark of it, viz., the not entertaining...warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, 'tis plain receives not truth in the love of it; loves not truth for truths sake, but for some other... | |
 | Bertrand Russell, Peter Köllner - Philosophy - 1997 - 944 pages
...the evidence warrants See Locke 7690, rv.xix.1: "How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry: and I think there is one unerring mark...assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant." 340: 11 as a lamented uncle of mine did This is Henry Edward John Stanley, 3rd Baron Stanley of Alderley... | |
 | Alvin Plantinga - Philosophy - 1998 - 392 pages
...strength of the evidence for that belief. Thus, according to John Locke a mark of the rational person is "the not entertaining any proposition with greater...assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant." According to David Hume "A wise man . . . proportions his belief to the evidence." In the nineteenth... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - Philosophy - 2003 - 676 pages
...Thing',1''8 echoing Chillingworth's basic principle: 'There is one unerring mark of [Love of Truth], viz. The not entertaining any Proposition with greater assurance than the Proofs it is built upon will warrant.'199 The implication of this rule is toleration, 'for where is the Man, that has incontestable... | |
 | Luis Villoro - Philosophy - 1998 - 356 pages
...the same conditional principle as "the love of truth". There would be a "sign" of this love, viz.: "not entertaining any Proposition with greater assurance than the Proofs it is built upon will warrant" (p. 697). Locke's doctrine seems like healthy common sense. In effect, only irrational motives would... | |
 | C. Stephen Evans - Philosophy - 1998 - 180 pages
...evidence of truth, he says that a person who loves truth must always exhibit the quality of not holding 'any Proposition with greater assurance than the Proofs it is built upon will warrant'.10 On Locke's view some religious truths are knowable by reason, which he defines as the ability... | |
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I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it; loves... 
