Paley’s “Horæ Paulinæ,” which consists of gathering togethe… - William Fleming

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Paley’s “Horæ Paulinæ,” which consists of gathering together undesigned coincidences, is an example of the consilience of inductions.

William Fleming

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William Fleming (1791 – 1866) was a British philosopher, and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the , known from his 1857 Vocabulary of philosophy, mental, moral, and metaphysical.

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In the philosophy of Locke the archetypes of our ideas are the things really existing out of us.

Moral obligation, being the obligation of a free agent, implies a law, and a law implies a law-giver. The will of God, therefore, is the true ground of all obligation, strictly and properly so called.

Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence, which is common to all men.

Paley’s “Horæ Paulinæ,” which consists of gathering together undesigned coincidences, is an example of the consilience of inductions. - William Fleming

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