 | Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 242
...universality of regular natural laws has a higher evidential claim than men's opinions of them, so that "we may establish it as a maxim, that no human testimony...prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any . . . system of religion."33 Enough has been said to suggest some of the means whereby seventeenth-century... | |
 | Terence Penelhum - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 240
...tradition have the effect of undermining those of opposed religious traditions. Hume's conclusion is "that no human testimony can have such force as to...and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion."2 Hume is here presenting the standards he thinks necessary for assessing the evidence of... | |
 | David Hume, Eric Steinberg - 1993 - عدد الصفحات: 170
...the remainder. But according to the principle here explained, this subtraction, with regard to all popular religions, amounts to an entire annihilation;...system of religion. I beg the limitations here made may be remarked, when I say, that a miracle can never be proved, so as to be the foundation of a system... | |
 | William L. Portier - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...reasonably believe that one had occurred. Against the apologists of his day, Hume concluded: . . . and therefore we may establish it as a maxim that...a just foundation for any such system of religion (137). Systems of religion cannot be based on human testimony to miracles. This is Hume's conclusion.... | |
 | Nancey Murphy - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 175
...the remainder. But according to the principle here explained, this subtraction, with regard to all popular religions, amounts to an entire annihilation;...and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion.19 In this passage Hume is arguing that the fact that a miracle is a violation of the laws... | |
 | David J. Bartholomew - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 302
...remains to be seen whether the rules are being correctly applied. Hume, in fact, went further by claiming that 'no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle' (p. 127). As we shall shortly see it is not easy to give a precise interpretation of this statement... | |
 | R. Douglas Geivett, Gary R. Habermas - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...the remainder. But according to the principle here explained, this subtraction, with regard to all popular religions, amounts to an entire annihilation;...system of religion. I beg the limitations here made may be remarked, when I say, that a miracle can never be proved, so as to be the foundation of a system... | |
 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 566
...it is inevitably outweighed by the empirical proof supporting the law of nature allegedly violated; "therefore we may establish it as a maxim, that no...prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any system of religion." This is not quite tantamount to a denial of the theoretical possibility of a miracle,... | |
 | Don Garrett Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Utah - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 289
...(28), the characterization of proof at (4), and characterization of miracles at (12), he concludes that "no human testimony can have such force as to...just foundation for any such system of religion." This is the second main conclusion of Part ii. Hume emphasizes that this last conclusion is restricted... | |
 | David Hume, Richard H. Popkin - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 158
...that the testimony about a reported miracle was false or doubtful than that the event had occurred. "[N]o human testimony can have such force as to prove...just foundation for any such system of religion." Hume then used this analysis to attack those who think Christian belief is reasonable. In the closing... | |
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... no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion. 
