 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1862 - 622 páginas
...principle than our experience of the veracity of human testimony. If the fact attested be miraculous, there arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof...is as complete as any argument from experience can poasibly be imagined ; and, if so, it is an undeniable consequence that it cannot be surmounted by... | |
 | William Thomson, William Thomson (Abp. of York) - 1862 - 558 páginas
...reasoning has received no substantial addition from the labours of subsequent writers on the same side: " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined."* The argument, as thus stated, was... | |
 | 1862 - 1156 páginas
...endeavours to establish." No fnch testimony can be had, therefore miracles arc not capable of proof. " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature, and...established these laws, the proof against a miracle is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be." We have here only tor the word "miracle"... | |
 | John Nash Griffin - 1862 - 354 páginas
...power. But this objection is, in truth, just the old one of Hume. This Deistical writer says * :— " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature, and as a firm and unalterable experience hath established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire... | |
 | James Campbell - 1999 - 322 páginas
...long-term efforts to develop an improved earthly existence.48 The discoveries of 45 Cf. David Hume [1768]: "A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined" ("Of Miracles," 524). 46 Cf. Thomas... | |
 | David Johnson - 1999 - 140 páginas
...an entire proof; in that case, there is proof against proof, of which the strongest must prevail. 9 A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. 10 And as a uniform experience amounts... | |
 | P.J. Bagley - 1999 - 312 páginas
...an entire proof; in that case, there is proof against proof, of which the strongest must prevail... A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and, as a firm and inalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against any miracle, for the very nature... | |
 | James Fieser - 2005 - 500 páginas
...convinced of this, if you attend but a little to the strain of the argument. 'A miracle,' says he, 'is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience bath established these laws, the proof against a miracle is as entire, as any argument from experience... | |
 | David Hume - 2000 - 460 páginas
...must prevail, but still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist. 12 A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can 2i PLUTARCH, in vita CATONIS. " No INDIAN, it is evident,... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 páginas
...Christian church. Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 15 (1776) 8 A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. David Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human... | |
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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. 
