 | Philip Schaff - 1866 - 380 páginas
...the same, but a moral absurdity and monstrosity. Hume says, in his. famous "Essay on Miracles : " " When any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored...I immediately consider with myself, whether it be 9 129 more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact he relates... | |
 | 1867 - 902 páginas
...miracles with M. Re'nan ; we shall simply set over against him the dictum of Hume, " 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 argument, and the superior only gives us that... | |
 | 1871 - 608 páginas
...argument from experience can possibly be imagined. . . . The plain consequence 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 j and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the... | |
 | 1870 - 482 páginas
...which, as he terms it himself, is a maxim worthy of our attention. He affirms that " no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a nature, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.... | |
 | Robert Baker White - 1873 - 366 páginas
...of its occurrence. Hume has said 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 which it endeavors to establish." We are ready to adopt the criterion here suggested, and we affirm that it... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - 1874 - 550 páginas
...evidence ;5 and, bearing in mind the nature of human testimony, he concludes : " That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours 1 Bampton Lectures, 1865, p. 48. 1 11., p. 49. 1 Hume's Philosophical Works. Adams and C. Black, 1854,... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1874 - 620 páginas
...believe in any deviation from them. Hume's famous argument against miracles is, that no. testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact ; and that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, because it is always more... | |
 | 1874 - 1178 páginas
...believe in any deviation from them. Hume's famous argument against miracles is, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact, and that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, because it is always more likely... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1874 - 56 páginas
...believe in any deviation from them. Hume's famous argument against miracles is, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact, and that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, because it is always more likely... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1874 - 56 páginas
...believe in any deviation from them. Hume's famous argument against miracles is, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miracubus than the fact, and that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, because... | |
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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. 
