 | David Hume - 1804 - 552 pàgines
...proof be destroyed, or the miracle rendered credible^ but by an opposite proof, which is superior*. • The plain Consequence is (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention)^ " That no testimony is suffi" cient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of... | |
 | George Campbell - 1807 - 530 pàgines
...fact is attested to us, we are equally under a necessity of believing a miracle, whether we believe the fact, or deny it. The whole difference between...consequence is, and it is a GENERAL MAXIM, worthy of " our attention, That NO TESTIMONY is SUFFICIENT TO ES" TABLISH A MIRACLE J UNLESS THE TESTIMONY BE OF SUcH... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 556 pàgines
...proof be destroyed, or the miracle rendered credible, but by an opposite proof, which is superior *. The plain consequence is (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), " That no testimony is suffi" cient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of... | |
 | George Campbell - 1823 - 590 pàgines
...fact is attested to us, we are equally under a necessity of believing a miracle, whether we believe the fact or deny it. The whole difference between...' The ' plain consequence is, and it is a GENERAL MAX' IM, worthy of our attention, That NO TESTI' MONY IS SUFFICIENT TO ESTABLISH A MI' EACLE ; UNLESS... | |
 | George Campbell - 1824 - 396 pàgines
...ushered into the world with so much solemnity. In order therefore to make plainer ' Page 182. lish of his plain consequence, let us only change the word...the effect produced by this elucidation. ' The plain con' sequence is, and it is a GENERAL MAXIM, worthy ofouratten* tion, That NO TESTIMONY is SUFFICIENT... | |
 | Charles Babbage - 1837 - 266 pàgines
...experience can possibly be imagined. * Boswell's Life of Johnson. Oxford, 1826. vol. iii. p. 169, " The plain consequence is (and it is a general maxim " worthy of our attention), that no testimony is sufficient " to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such... | |
 | James Smith - 1843 - 728 pàgines
...a proof be destroyed, or the miracle rendered credible, but by an 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 a miracle, unless the testimony be of such... | |
 | 1843 - 644 pàgines
...very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." — " The plain consequence is, (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention,) that no testimony is sufficient to estab1843.] Hume. lish a miracle, unless the testimony... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 pàgines
...proof be destroyed, or the miracle rendered credible, but by an 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 a miracle, unless the testimony be of such... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - 210 pàgines
...a proof be destroyed, or the miracle rendered credible, but by an 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 a establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of... | |
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The plain consequence is (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), "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... 
