 | Robert J. Fogelin - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 270
...argument from experience can possibly be imagined. (E 1 14, emphasis added) Passage II. There must . . . be a uniform experience against every miraculous event,...otherwise the event would not merit that appellation. And as a uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and full proof, from the nature... | |
 | David Hume, Eric Steinberg - 1993 - عدد الصفحات: 170
...though more unusual than any other, has yet been frequently observed to happen. But it is a miracle, that a dead man should come to life; because that...otherwise the event would not merit that appellation. And as an uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and full proof, from the nature... | |
 | Bimal K. Matilal, A. Chakrabarti - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...though more unusual than any other, has yet been frequently observed to happen. But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life; because that...otherwise the event would not merit that appellation (p. 115). We may ignore, for our purposes here, the validity of this highly debatable account of a... | |
 | Ronald H. Nash - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...though more unusual than any other, has yet been frequently observed to happen. But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country.1 1 There must, therefore, be a uniform experience against every miraculous event, otherwise... | |
 | Lorraine Daston - 1988 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...argued that the intrinsic probability of a miracle — from "the nature of the fact" — was zero: There must, therefore, be a uniform experience against...miraculous event, otherwise the event would not merit that apellation. And as a uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and full prnnf,... | |
 | Jeff Jordan, Daniel Howard-Snyder - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 310
...epistemological issues with ontological ones. On page 115, for example, Hume writes, "it is a miracle, that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country." Presumably, what Hume meant was that we justifiably believe it to be a law of nature that dead men... | |
 | Everett Zimmerman - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...testimony or of the patterns of nature are the more reliable. Hume concludes that as "there must ... be a uniform experience against every miraculous event, otherwise the event would not merit that appelation," no testimony can confirm a miracle (p. 115). While taking the same skeptical view of hearsay... | |
 | R. Douglas Geivett, Gary R. Habermas - 1997 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...though more unusual than any other, has yet been frequently observed to happen. But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life, because that has never been observed in any age or country." Hume can provide no conception of a law of nature sufficiently strong to allow for any real distinction... | |
 | Don Garrett Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Utah - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 289
...nature, (definition) 13. [A] firm and unalterable experience has established these laws [of nature]. 14. There must, therefore, be a uniform experience against...otherwise the event would not merit that appellation, (from 12 and 13) 15. [T]here is here a direct and full proof, from the nature of the fact, against... | |
 | David Hume, Richard H. Popkin - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 158
...though more unusual than any other, has yet been frequently observed to happen. But it is a miracle, that a dead man should come to life; because that...otherwise the event would not merit that appellation. And as a uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and full proof, from the nature... | |
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But it is a miracle, that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country. 
