 | James Fieser - 2005 - Страниц: 500
...therefore, in the end of the same paragraph, retracts part of what he had advanced in the beginning. 'We may establish it as a maxim, that no human testimony...prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any system of religion.' In the note on this passage, he has these words. 'I beg the limitation here made... | |
 | James Fieser - 2005 - Страниц: 468
...of miracle can ever possibly amount to a probability, much less to a proof." [Ibid.] Ditto, p. 203. "We may establish it as a maxim, That no human testimony...prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any system of religion." [Ibid.] Then he instances in the case of its being affirmed that one suppose Queen... | |
 | David Johnson - 1999 - Страниц: 140
...more controversial) the Judaism of most Jews who have lived. So I take Hume's final conclusion to be that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle and make it a just foundation (a proper main or solitary evidential basis) for any system of religion that is evidentially based... | |
 | David Hume - 2000 - Страниц: 460
...the remainder. But according to the principle here explained, this subtraction, with regard to all popular religions, amounts to an entire annihilation;...system of religion. I beg the limitations here made may be remarked, when I say, that a miracle can never be proved, so as to be the foundation of a system... | |
 | John Earman - 2000 - Страниц: 236
...therefore. in the end of the same paragraph. retracts part of what he had advanced in the beginning: "We may establish it as a maxim. that no human testimony...such force as to prove a miracle. and make it a just Inundation for any system of religion." In the note on this passage he has these words: "I beg the... | |
 | John Earman - 2000 - Страниц: 232
...arises from the remainder. But according to the principle explained, this subtraction with regard to all popular religions, amounts to an entire annihilation;...as a maxim, that no human testimony can have such a force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion. (E 127;... | |
 | Stuart C. Brown - 2001 - Страниц: 212
...amounts to an entire annihilation; and therefore we mav establish it as a maxim, that no human testimonv can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make...a just foundation for any such system of religion. 35 I beg the limitations here made mav be remarked, when I say, that a OJJ ' miracle can never be proved,... | |
 | Victor Shea, William Whitla - 2000 - Страниц: 1092
...contradictory, partial, and partisan, and hence is invalid and must be repudiated. In "Of Miracles" he argues "no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any . . . system of religion" ([1748] 1964, 105). Dismissing all truth claims for religion on the basis... | |
 | Michael F. Palmer - 2001 - Страниц: 388
...the remainder. But according to the principle here explained, this substraction, with regard to all popular religions, amounts to an entire annihilation;...and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion.20 So forthright is Hume in attacking the probability of miracles that it is not difficult... | |
 | Michael F. Palmer - 2001 - Страниц: 388
...regard to all popular religions, amounts to an entite annibilation; and therefore we may esrablish it as a maxim, that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a mitacle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion.20 So forthtight is Hume in... | |
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... no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion. 
