Thirteenth Meeting

Thirteenth Meeting December 15th 1870

 

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Meeting at Mr Watt’s house.
Present Messrs Brunner, J.T.Brunner, Muspratt
Carey, Mond & Watts.

Words for definition
Instinct, Faith, [xxxx]
Faith was taken first,& afterwards the following
definitions were agreed to, for Instinct
Definition agreed to by Palmam qui meruit ferat,
Unversagt, Erin go bragh, Nemo, Onward & Upward,
Instinct is the faculty which prompts action
without previous reasoning.
Paulatim not present.
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Word for definition   Faith
Definitions proposed.
Faith is the faculty by which certain people
persuade themselves to consider as true what they
[do] not know                                                    Unversagt
Faith is belief without [exercising] the powers of reasoning
                                                                          Erin go Bragh
Faith is unreasoning belief                               Onward
Faith is confidence in a superior power
                                                                           Nemo


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Faith is [trust] that accepted [character] will be

[xxxtained]                                                Paulatim

Faith is practical belief in a proposition

                                                                   Palmam qui meruit ferat

Faith is active belief

     Sent by “Gradatim” who was not present

                    Definition agreed

Faith is trust in that of which we have no [abso-

-lute] knowledge.

                    Agreed unanimously

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Twelfth Meeting

Twelfth Meeting December 2nd 1870

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Meeting held at Mr Mond’s house, Dec 2nd 1870

Present. Messrs. Mond, Brunner, J.T. Brunner, Carey

Muskrat, Raven & Watts.

Words proposed for definition

Reason, Instinct

Definitions proposed “Reason”.

Reason. The power of drawing conclusions

                                                           Unversagt

Reason is the power of perceiving the essential

relation of phenomena.                     Onward & upward

Reason. That faculty of mind which distinguishes

between cause & effect.                    Erin go Bragh.

Reason is the faculty of perceiving the logical

dependence of one proposition upon another.

                                                          Palmam qui meruit ferat

Reason is the faculty of deducing results by

the data obtained by the perceptive faculties.

                                                           Gradatim

Reason is the faculty of controlling thought.

                                                            Nemo

Reason is the ability to deduce the unknown

from the known.                                 Paulatim

Definition agreed to. Reason is the faculty of drawing

conclusions from data.

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