 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
 | William Cooke - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 228
...event would not merit the appellation. And as an uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and full proof, from the nature of the fact,...against the existence of any miracle. Nor can such proof be destroyed or the miracle rendered credible but by an opposite proof which is superior." I... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...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,...opposite proof, which is superior. The plain consequence is—and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention,—' That no testimony is sufficient to establish... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...would not merit that appellation. And aa 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... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 222
...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,...rendered credible but by an opposite proof •which is superior."—(IV. p. 134.) Every one of these dicta appears to be open to »erious •bjection. The... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 950
...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,...no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle 1 David Hume, Philosophical Works; Boston and Edinburgh, 1854, iv., Pw6. K unless the testimony be... | |
 | David Hume - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 419
...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,...credible, but by an opposite proof, which is superior \ 01 The plain consequence is (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), ' That no testimony... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 1242
...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 the existence of any miracle.' Now, while his argument is logically as conclusive as ever, it to-day convinces only those who are... | |
 | David Hume - 1907 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...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,...rendered credible, but by an opposite proof, which is superior.1 The plain consequence is (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), ' That no... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 234
...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,...rendered 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... | |
 | John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...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,...rendered credible, but by an opposite proof, which is superior.1 The plain consequence is (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), 'that no testimony... | |
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