 | William Henry Ruffner - 1852 - 692 páginas
...destroyed or the miracle rendered credible, but by an op;»-itc proof which is superior." Consequently, "No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless the testimony be of such kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact which it endeavors to establish."... | |
 | 1853 - 826 páginas
...describes. Mr. Hume fell 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,...be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." This was, in effect, to say, that a miraculous... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 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,...be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than- the fact which it endeavors to establish : and even in that case there is a mutual... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1854 - 374 páginas
...we he inclined to believe in it, we must at least doubt the former. Thus the author concludes " That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that ils falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish : and even in... | |
 | George Long - 1855 - 368 páginas
...a general maxim ; and to add a few words of comment on the latter part of it. The maxim is, " 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... | |
 | abbé Marie Gabriel - 1857 - 482 páginas
...evidence to make us believe in any deviation from them. Hume's famous argument against miracles is, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculo'us than the fact, and that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, because... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - 210 páginas
...consequence is (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), " That no testimony is sufficient to a 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... | |
 | John Shertzer Hittell - 1857 - 360 páginas
...our opinions of all wonderful tales,) that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, uuless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculons than the fact whieh it endeavors to establish ; and even in that case there is a mutual... | |
 | Charles Bradlaugh, Anthony Collins, John Watts, William Harral Johnson - 1858 - 362 páginas
...which 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,...be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. And even in that case there is a mutual destruction... | |
 | Henri Édouard Schedel - 1858 - 494 páginas
...situation of nature, from and to Eternity ? " If therefore it be admitted with Mr. Hume that " no human testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless...be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. And even in that case there is a mutual destruction... | |
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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... 
