| 1875 - 596 páginas
...uniform experience amounting to a "full and direct proof" of the contrary. He maintains that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, " unless the...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." In a word, mistakes and lies are of daily experience, whilst a miracle is entirely beyoud our experience... | |
| John Thomson (Minister of Free St. George's, Paisley.) - 1876 - 250 páginas
...his opposition to miracles. Hume candidly admitted that human testimony might prove a miracle, if " the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish," — unless indeed it were wrought "in support of religion ! " And he admitted further that he would... | |
| 1877 - 1146 páginas
...moment is inconceivable. The case completely fulfils Hume's condition that, to establish a miracle, " the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." It seems idle to draw " psychological parallels," as has recently been attempted, between a moral giant... | |
| Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1878 - 564 páginas
...moment is inconceivable. The case completely fulfils Hume's condition that, to establish a miracle, " the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." It seems idle to draw " psychological parallels," as has recently been attempted, between a moral giant... | |
| Walter Richard Cassels - 1879 - 628 páginas
...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... | |
| Henry Wace - 1880 - 424 páginas
...moment is inconceivable. The case completely fulfils Hume's condition that, to establish a miracle, 'the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.' It seems idle to draw ' psychological parallels,' as has recently been attempted, between a moral giant... | |
| Logan Mitchell - 1881 - 258 páginas
...is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and, therefore, no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish." This argument is absolutely invincible. The boundless plenum of Nature —... | |
| John Cunningham - 1882 - 942 páginas
...upon transubstantiation, he attempts to demonstrate the startling proposition, that " no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." Yet, with all his philosophical scepticism, Hume was a man of exemplary morals, of genuine benevolence,... | |
| John James Lias - 1883 - 300 páginas
...the objections which had been raised by Woolston and others before him. He says " that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." Or, as Paley summarizes it yet more tersely ; " it is contrary to experience that a miracle should... | |
| Henry Coke - 1883 - 328 páginas
...New Testament. The famous argument of Hume states the case in its aptest form. " That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." To deal here with general principles only, we may ask : "Whether any testimony could be of the requisite... | |
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