 | Nathaniel Alexander Nicholson - 1866 - عدد الصفحات: 128
...consequence, " That no evidence is sufficient to establish the truth of any statement, unless the evidence be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more improbable than the truth of the statement which it endeavours to establish." If we are asked to believe any unusual and... | |
 | 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 902
...the question of miracles with M. Re'nan ; we shall simply set over against him the dictum of Hume, " that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish ; and even in that case there is a mutual... | |
 | 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 608
...as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. . . . The plain consequence is that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish j and even in that case there is a mutual... | |
 | 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...the following sentence, which, as he terms it himself, is a maxim worthy of our attention. He affirms that " no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a nature, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...which is superior. The plain consequence is, (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), ' That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish : and even in that case there is a mutual... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 620
...evidence to make us believe in any deviation from them. Hume's famous argument against miracles is, that no. testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact ; and that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, because... | |
 | 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 1178
...evidence to make us believe in any deviation from them. Hume's famous argument against miracles is, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact, and that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, because... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 56
...evidence to make us believe in any deviation from them. Hume's famous argument against miracles is, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle,...be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miracubus than the fact, and that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, because... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 60
...of a law of nature," plainly shows that he meant to include human nature: "no testimony," says lie, "is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a nature that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish."... | |
 | Friedrich Ueberweg - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...notice. The Essay of Miracles aroused general attention and provoked active criticism. Its doctrine is, " that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish ; and in that case there is... | |
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That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish... 
