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A Calculation of the Credibility of Human Testimony

A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties

Abridgement of the Argument

An Argument for Divine Providence, taken from the constant Regularity observ'd in the Births of both Sexes

An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances

Aristotle's Physics

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Excerpts from An Essay on Man

Excerpts from Descent of Man

Excerpts from Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill

Excerpts from The Origin of Species

Hume: Basic Outline

Lines, Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting the Wye During a Tour

Notes From Underground

Penseés and The Provincial Letters

Sir Isaac Newton

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Spring 2008

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Undergraduate

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Undergraduate

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