 A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.  Lectures on Ecclesiastical History - الصفحة 416بواسطة George Campbell - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 503عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Logan Mitchell - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 258
...modern philosopher has given the quietus to miracles in the following death-blow : — " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | Colin Brown, Steve Wilkens, Alan G. Padgett - 1990 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...argument contained a definition of miracles which was in effect a denial of their possibility. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | C. Stephen Evans - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 228
...94-95n (257-58n). 39. The following well-known passage lies at the heart of Hume's argument: "A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | Diogenes Allen, Eric O. Springsted - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...prevail, but still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | Robert J. Fogelin - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 270
...which occur in the same paragraph, are particularly relevant to this discussion: Passage I. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | James W. Cornman, Keith Lehrer, George Sotiros Pappas - 1992 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...David Hume. Hume's Objection: Belief in Violation-Miracles Is Always Unjustified Hume says, A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | David Hume, Eric Steinberg - 1993 - عدد الصفحات: 170
...prevail, but still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | William Lane Craig - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...for the regularity of the laws of nature, which also amounts to a full proof. He writes, "A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature, and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, a proof against miracle, from the very nature of... | |
 | Ronald H. Nash - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...impossible. Such people base this opinion on a superficial reading of the following words: "A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | Art Berman - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...Concerning Human Understanding, sec. 10, Hume writes concerning the possibility of miracles: "A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle ... is as entire as... | |
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