 There must, therefore, 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 of the fact, against...  Essays and treatises on several subjects - الصفحة 113بواسطة David Hume - 1817عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Harvey Goodwin (bp. of Carlisle.) - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...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 of the fact,...proof be destroyed, or the miracle rendered credible, by an opposite proof which is superior."* Coleridge somewhere (I think) expresses his compassion for... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 210
...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 of the fact,...our attention), " That no testimony is sufficient to a establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous... | |
 | 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...uniform experience amounts to a proof; there is here a direct and full proof from the nature of things against the existence of any miracle ; nor can such...credible, but by an opposite proof which is superior." This proposition has been the bugbear of the theological world ; and with the way, in which it has... | |
 | 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...direct and full proof, from the nature of the feet, against the existence of any miracle ; nor can suck a proof be destroyed, or the miracle rendered credible, but by an opposite proof, which is juperior. This argument is radically fallacious, because if it were sound, no perfectly new fact could... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 256
...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 of the fact,...credible, but by an opposite proof, which is superior." This argument is radically fallacious, because if it were sound, no perfectly new fact could ever be... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 230
...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 of the fact,...credible but by an opposite proof which is superior." — (IV. p. 134.) Every one of these dicta appears to be open to serious objection. Cicero applies... | |
 | Joseph William Reynolds - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...event would not merit that appellation ; and as uniform experience amounts to proof, there is here direct and full proof, from the nature of the fact, against the existence of any miracles ; nor can such proof be destroyed, or the miracle rendered credible, but by opposite proof,... | |
 | St. George William J. Stock - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 262
...assumption of the following position : — " As au uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is a direct and full proof, from the nature of the fact,...credible, but by an opposite proof which is superior." Need I point out that, unless by " experience" be meant Hume's private and particular experience —... | |
 | St. George William J. Stock - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 270
...assumption of the following position : — " As an uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is a direct and full proof, from the nature of the fact,...proof be destroyed, or the miracle rendered credible, hut by an opposite proof which is superior." Need I point out that, unless by " experience" be meant... | |
 | 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 836
...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 of the fact,...credible but by an opposite proof which is superior." — (IV. p. 134.) Every one of these dicta appears to be open to serious objection. The word " miracle... | |
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