Arnauld
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Except, of course, Arnauld didn’t use the word ‘evidence’, as he was writing French, not English.
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Quintilian is a fundamental reference point for Arnauld: ‘Quintilian and all the other rhetoricians, Aristotle and all the philosophers...’
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If the strangeness of the fact could not be undone, at least the evidence for it could be reinforced so that it was turned into a stubborn fact; this was how, Arnauld argued, we could be confident in the miracles reported by St Augustine, for, strange as they might be, who could doubt his veracity?
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As Arnauld recognized, the question of where to draw the line between facts that were too strange to be credible and facts that were strange but stubborn was far from straightforward.
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As Arnauld had argued in The Logic of Port-Royal, plain facts beat strange facts every time.
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