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Often appears with: reason and the intellect · julius caesar · history and the writing of history · fidelity of printers and copyists · argument against christian religion
Usually: reflection (1) · detachment (1) · skepticism (1)
Hume addresses an objection about the loss of ancient historical evidence by arguing that identical transmission steps keep the vivacity of belief, contrasting this with the problem faced when each testimony link differs.
and must at last be utterly extinguished: And vice versa, if belief on some occasions be not capable of such an extinction; it must be something different from that vivacity. Before I answer this objection I shall observe, that from this topic there has been borrowed a very celebrated argument against the Christian Religion; but with this difference, that the connexion betwixt each link of the chain in human testimo…