 | James E. Alcock, Jean E. Burns, Anthony Freeman - 2003 - Страниц: 262
...He proposed the following principle: No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless that testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish. Although this principle allows for the possibility that the evidence in favour of a miracle might outweigh... | |
 | Christopher Hamilton - 2003 - Страниц: 452
...place than that they are lying, mistaken, exaggerating or the like. In Hume's words: '[N]o testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, then the fact which it endeavours to establish' (Hume 1985: 116). However, Hume argues that there are... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - Страниц: 494
...wortbv of our attentioni, 'That no testimonv is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimonv be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the tact, which it endeavours to establish; and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments,... | |
 | Jordan Howard Sobel - 2003 - Страниц: 676
...subtle and not important. 6 On the second pari of Hume's maxim. Having said "[t]hat no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...than the fact, which it endeavours to establish," Hume adds that, "even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the superior only... | |
 | Len Fisher - 2004 - Страниц: 278
...scientists. Hume was concerned with the value of testimony as evidence and concludes: No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish. Modern research on testimony indicates that no two witnesses remember an event alike, and that even... | |
 | Anne Jordan, Neil Lockyer, Edwin Tate - 2004 - Страниц: 262
...clearly purported to have many witnesses. For Hume, however, this makes no difference: No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish; and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the superior only gives us assurance... | |
 | Dieter Helm - 2004 - Страниц: 506
...Carbon Economy', para L1, p. 61 it is a general maxim worthy of our attention that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish (Hume, 1751, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, part 1, pp. 109-1311. When the White... | |
 | Colin J. D. Greene - 2004 - Страниц: 456
...David Hume was widely believed to have demonstrated the impossibility of miracles: 'No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.' See, D. Hume, Essay on Mirades. Quoted in AE McGrath, The Making of Modem Grrman Cheistology: From... | |
 | Gordon Graham - 2004 - Страниц: 264
...The plain consequence is (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), "That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish: and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the superior only gives us an... | |
 | David Hume - 2004 - Страниц: 116
...The plain consequence is 1and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), "that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish; and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the superior... | |
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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. 
