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... believe as fact what is merely a story that someone has told us ; or when one who is ill with jaundice judges everything to be yellow because his eye is tinged with yellow . So finally , too , when the imagination is diseased , as in ...
... believe as fact what is merely a story that someone has told us ; or when one who is ill with jaundice judges everything to be yellow because his eye is tinged with yellow . So finally , too , when the imagination is diseased , as in ...
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... believe , but also because many are themselves ignorant of their beliefs . For since the act of thought by which we believe a thing is different from that by which we know that we believe it , the one often exists without the other ...
... believe , but also because many are themselves ignorant of their beliefs . For since the act of thought by which we believe a thing is different from that by which we know that we believe it , the one often exists without the other ...
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... believe that there is a God , because we are so taught in the Holy Scriptures , and , on the other hand , that we must believe the Holy Scriptures because they come from God ( the reason of this is , that , faith being a gift of God ...
... believe that there is a God , because we are so taught in the Holy Scriptures , and , on the other hand , that we must believe the Holy Scriptures because they come from God ( the reason of this is , that , faith being a gift of God ...
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