 | Charles Babbage - 1837
...1817, vol. ii. p. 117. Replacing this in Hume's argument, it stands thus — " That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, " unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its truth " would be more probable than the fact which it endea" vours to establish." The argument is now... | |
 | Charles Babbage - 1837 - Страниц: 244
...so translated, stands thus : — • That no testimony is sufficient to establish an improbability, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more improbable than the occurrence of the fact which it endeavours to establish. But the " fact which it... | |
 | Sarah Renou - 1838
...witnesses, is five times as great as the improbability against the miracle." And has not only shown that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavoured to establish, but that a miracle may be only the exact fulfilment of a general law of nature... | |
 | William James Linton - 1839
...credible, but by an opposite proof which is superior. The plain consequence is, " that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would 1>e mure miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish : and even in that case there is... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester) - 1841
...reasoning is summed up in what he calls " a general maxim worthy 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... | |
 | Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - 1841
...gla" nature," plainly shows that he meant to include human nature : " no testimony," says he, " is sufficient to establish " a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a nature that its " falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it " endeavours to establish... | |
 | George Hill - 1842 - Страниц: 781
...words of Mr. Hume, although he certainly did not mean them to be so applied : "No testimony is sufcient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." The falsehood of the testimony of the apostles would be more miraculous, ie it is more improbable than... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - 1843
...for his view of the question. " 'T is a general maxim worthy of our attention, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...endeavours to establish." — " When any one tells me," he continues in the same .paragraph, " that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider... | |
 | James Smith - 1843
...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...falsehood 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... | |
 | 1843
...a general maxim worthy of our attention,) that no testimony is sufficient to estab1843.] Hume. lish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind,...falsehood 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... | |
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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. 
