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 destruction of arguments,... Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects - الصفحة 121بواسطة David Hume - 1809عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| David Hume - 1758 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...lihere is a mutual de*' ftruction of arguments, and the fuperior only gives us an aflurance fuitable to *' that degree of force, which remains, after deducting the inferior." When any one tells me, that he faw a dead man reftored to life, I immediately confider with myfelf, whether it be more probable, that... | |
| John Leland - 1764 - عدد الصفحات: 426
...there is a " mutual deftruction of arguments, and the fuperiority only " gives us an affurance fuitable to that degree of force, which " remains after deducting the inferior. When any one tells me, * Hume's Philofophical Eflays, p. 181. '* that he faw a dead man reftored to life, I immediately con"... | |
| David Hume - 1764 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...there is a mutual deftruclion of " arguments, and the fuperior only gives us an aflurance " fuitable to that degree of force, which remains, after " deducting the inferior." When anyone tells me, that he faw a dead man reftored to life, I immediately confider with myfelf, whether... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - عدد الصفحات: 640
...acquaintances must last longest, if they do last ; and then, Sir, young men have more virtue than old 1 ' When any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - عدد الصفحات: 648
...acquaintances must last longest, if they do last ; and then, Sir, young men have more virtue than old ' ' When any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive... | |
| David Hume - 1804 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...appellation; And as an uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and full proof, from th« nature of the fact^ against the existence of any miracle...tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable, that this person should either deceive... | |
| 1817 - عدد الصفحات: 798
...that its falsehood AvoiiM be more miraculous, than the tact -which it endeavours to establish : arid even, in that case, there is a mutual destruction...arguments, and the Superior only gives us an assurance «uitahlr to that degree of force which remains after deducting the inferior." In the above quotation,... | |
| David Hume - 1817 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...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...any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to lifev I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either... | |
| 1817 - عدد الصفحات: 780
...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...force which remains after deducting the inferior." la the above quotation, Mr. Hume ftiumtt the utter incapacity of testimony to prove a miracle. That... | |
| Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - عدد الصفحات: 636
...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 dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable, that this person should either deceive... | |
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