 | Richard Dawkins - 2011 - Страниц: 464
...everybody into space. David Hume's pithy test for a miracle comes irresistibly to mind: 'No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.' mass lie. Or that history is mistaken in recording that seventy thousand people claimed to see the... | |
 | Mark Goldie, Robert Wokler - 2006 - Страниц: 944
...was believable, and that it would always be more probable that the report was false. 'No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish' (Hume 1951, pp. 115-16). At the end of the essay, 'Of Miracles' (1750), Hume suggested examining the... | |
 | Nigel Rees - 2006 - Страниц: 592
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 | George Hill - 2006 - Страниц: 592
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 | Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - Страниц: 790
...radically different from common experience, cannot be rendered credible by any testimony: [N]o 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 - 2006 - Страниц: 629
...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... | |
 | James C. Livingston, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza - Страниц: 456
...existence of any miracle. The plain consequence which Hume draws from the above is 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."4 That fact is, then, that it appears that no testimony for any kind of miracle... | |
 | Edward J. Huth, T. J. Murray - 2006 - Страниц: 597
...but itself to know itself with. The Devil's Dictionary MIRACLES David Hume; 1748 2186 No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Of Miracles Alexander Solzhenitsyn;... | |
 | Fred R. Shapiro - 2006 - Страниц: 1092
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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. 
