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"Let there be Stx Particulari of a Narrative Equally Retmrkable. If heea whont the Report is givcn, has § at Certainty for the Whole or Sua«fthem, he has 35. to ont, against the Faiiure in any One certain Par-ticular.

For he has 5. to ene, there will be no Faiiure at all : And if there be, hehas yet another 5. to One , that it falls not upon that Single Particular of•the Stx : That is, he has \ of Certainty for the Whole, and of the % Want-ing he has likewise or of the Whole, more ; and therefore that there•will bc no Faiiure in that Single Particular, he has £ and of Certainty ;or f | of it.

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Prop, IV. Conceming t&e Truth of eitherOn\ or Written Tradition, sinWhole, or in Part,') Succtslively TransmitteJ, and also Coattested by severalüucceflions of Tranfmittents.

I. Supposing the Transmijsion of an Oral Narrative to be fb performedJby a Succession of Single Men, or Joyned in Ccmpanies, as that each Trans-mißion , aster the Narrative has been kept for zo Years, Impairs the Cre-dit of it a 1 zth. patt; and that consequently in the tz tb. Hand, orat thejend of z4o. Years, its Certainty is Reduced to a Half ; and there grows thenan Even Lay (by the Corolkry of the id. Propcfition) against the Truth ofthe Relation: Yet if we further suppose, that the fame Relation is Coattefl-ed by 9 orber Several Succejfions, Tranfmitting alike each of them, theCredibility of it when they are all found to Agree, will (by the Corollary of<the First Propofititm) be as ioti of Certainty, or above a Thoufand to m;and i f we suppose a Coatteflation oF 19, the Credibility of it will be as above3. M*Ilions to One.

z. In Oral Tradition, as a Single Man is Subject to much Cafuality, fb aCompany of Men cannot be Io eafily fiipposed to Joyn; and therefore theCredibiltty ot tff orabout || may polnbly be Judg’d too High a Degreefor an Oral Ccnveyance, to the distancc of ao Years. But in Wrilten Tra-ditum, the Chances against the Truth or Constrvaum of a Single Writing areiar Lefi: and several Copies may also be Easily supposed to Concurr,and those since the Invention of Printing exactiy the fame; Severalalso Difiinll Sucosioris of such Copies may be as well Supposed,taken by Different -Hands, and Presctv’d in Different Places or Lan-guages.

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