Ep. 27 - Alan Charles Kors: Voltaire’s ‘Philosophical Letters,’ Part II
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The Relationship Between England and French Rationalism
Inoculation n is interfering with divine providence. And it's turned over to the faculty of medicine that decides it on the basis of deduction from a rational princi or rational deduction from a principle, first do no harm. As opposed to that, you have the english who have studied,. inferred from the turkish and circassian experience, the value and effectiveness of inoculation. It's been tested, part of the whole system of induction and empirical testing. The advocates of voltaire's position in france will, above all, turn to english mortality tables which are kept very well to show the evidence for the efficacy of inoculations. But how did we get there? In between the
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