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Quote from Anthony Collins,


"By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence."


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Anthony Collins (more quotes by Anthony Collins or books by/about Anthony Collins)


(1676-1729) English philosopher, proponent of deism

Source:

A Discourse of Freethinking, 1713

Categories:

Freedom, Independence, Individualism, Jury, Justice, Learning, Liberty

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