 | Samuel Moshaim Schmucker - 1848 - Страниц: 480
...nothing strange that men should He in all agos." — Hume's Phil. Works, vol. iv., p. 139. •(• " When any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored...I immediately consider with myself, whether it be moreprobaEvery one knows that we have not this necessary means of judging in this case by the proof... | |
 | M. A - 1848
...The last argument of Mr. Hume is, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless it be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact. Now let us meet our bold adversary on his own ground, and endeavour to prove that the testimony of... | |
 | George Griffin - 1850 - Страниц: 352
...another part of his selfconflicting essay. He admits that any miracle may be proved by testimony, if " the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact it endeavors to establish." In the four preceding chapters, we have sought to show, and we trust not... | |
 | George Griffin - 1850 - Страниц: 352
...another part of his selfconflicting essay. He admits that . any miracle may be proved by testimony, if " the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact it endeavors to establish." In the four preceding chapters, we have sought to show, and we trust not... | |
 | 1850
...following sentence;— 'The plain consequence is, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a , mirMle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraonlon than the fad which it endeavors to establish.] For in Hume's argument the wow ' miraculoui'... | |
 | Edward Hitchcock - 1851 - Страниц: 408
...contrary to experience. " It is," says Mr. Hume, " a maxim worthy of our attention, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would ba more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to estabblish." Hence he asserts, that " the evidence... | |
 | John Kitto - 1852
...true, but not contrary to experience that testimony should be false. " No testimony," he says, " is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." We may turn to the definition usually given by Christian writers as much nearer to the truth. A miracle... | |
 | William Henry Ruffner - 1852 - Страниц: 606
...been fair and worthy of respectful consideration. He thus lays down the principle: " No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous [that is, more improbable,] than the fact which it endeavors to establish." This is a just principle.... | |
 | 1853
...into an error of the same kind as that we are now exposing, when he declared " that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." This was, in effect, to say, that a miraculous event demands a miraculous testimony to support it,... | |
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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. 
