Condemning things of slight probability


“How many things of slight probability there are, testified to by trustworthy people, which, if we cannot be convinced of them, we should at least leave in suspense! For to condemn them as impossible is to pretend, with rash presumption, to know the limits of possibility.”

I.27 “It is folly to measure the true and false by our own capacity” (p. 162)


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