 That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish: and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments,...  A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen - Стр. 116редактор(ы): - 1854Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | David Hume - 1804 - Страниц: 552
...a miracle, unless the testimony be of " such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miracu" lous than the fact which it endeavours to establish: "...force, which remains, after " deducting the inferior." When any one tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself,... | |
 | 1817 - Страниц: 798
...that its falsehood AvoiiM be more miraculous, than the tact -which it endeavours to establish : arid even, in that case, there is a mutual destruction...arguments, and the Superior only gives us an assurance «uitahlr to that degree of force which remains after deducting the inferior." In the above quotation,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - Страниц: 830
...testimony (says in j is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which, it endeavours to establish. When one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - Страниц: 528
...testimony is sufficient " to_ establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such " a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous " than the fact...force which remains after deducting the " inferior,." When any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to lifev I immediately consider with myself whether... | |
 | 1817 - Страниц: 780
...no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact...force which remains after deducting the inferior." la the above quotation, Mr. Hume ftiumtt the utter incapacity of testimony to prove a miracle. That... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - Страниц: 540
...testimony is sufficient " to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such " a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous " than the fact...degree of force which remains after deducting the ii inferior." When any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - Страниц: 636
...says he, (b) is sufficient M establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish — When any one tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself,... | |
 | Thomas Renwick - 1820 - Страниц: 360
...No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." ." And I shall leave it to the world to decide, whether the evidence to the miracle in question is not fairly... | |
 | 1881 - Страниц: 1046
...the requirement of Hume, namely, that to prove a miracle ' the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.' To us it seems that he has done little more than indicate the line of argument which leads to that... | |
 | 1823 - Страниц: 880
...testimony (says he) is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish. When one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether... | |
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