 | David Hume - 1804 - 552 páginas
...Consequence is (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention)^ " That no testimony is suffi" cient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of " such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miracu" lous than the fact which it endeavours to establish: " And even in that case there is a mutual... | |
 | 1817 - 798 páginas
...infc ¡position of an InVrSibfe AgenV This Essay, to use bis own words, is 'designed to show "That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood AvoiiM be more miraculous, than the tact -which it endeavours to establish : arid even, in that case,... | |
 | George Campbell - 1807 - 294 páginas
...consequence is, and it is " .a GENERAL MAXIM, worthy of our at*• tention, THAT NO TESTIMONY is SUFFICI" ENT TO ESTABLISH A MIRACLE, UNLESS " THE TESTIMONY BE OF SUCH A KIND, THAT " ITS FALSEHOOD WOULD BE MORE IMPRO" BABLE THAN THE FACT WHICH IT EN" DEAVOURS TO ESTABLISH."* If the reader thinks himself instructed... | |
 | George Campbell - 1807 - 530 páginas
...GENERAL MAXIM, worthy of " our attention, That NO TESTIMONY is SUFFICIENT TO ES" TABLISH A MIRACLE J UNLESS THE TESTIMONY BE OF SUcH " A KIND, THAT ITS FALSEHOOD WOULD BE MORE IMPRO" BABLE, THAN• THE FAcT WHIcH IT ENDEAVOURS TO E8" TABLisHf ." If the reader thinks himself... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 556 páginas
...consequence is (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), " That no testimony is suffi" cient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of " such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miracu" lous than the fact which it endeavours to establish: " And even in that case there is a mutual... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 830 páginas
...kind which Mr. Hume has acknowledged sufficient to establish even a miracle. " No testimony (says in j 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. When one tells me that he saw a dead man... | |
 | 1817 - 780 páginas
...interposition of an Invisible Agent." This Essay, to use his own words, is designed to show " That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact which it endeavours to establish : and even, in that case, there is a mutual... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 540 páginas
...is superior *. The plain consequence is, (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), " That no testimony is sufficient " to establish a miracle,...of such " a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous " than the fact which it endeavours to establish : And even " in that case there is a mutual... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 páginas
...consequence is, (and it is a general 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 be more miraculous " than the fact which it endeavours to establish : And even " in that case there is a mutual... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 636 páginas
...sufficient to establish the credibility even of a miracle. " No testimony, says he, (b) is sufficient M 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 — When any one tells me, that he saw a... | |
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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... 
