 | Thomas Baldwin Thayer - 1849 - 450 pàgines
...AGAINST INFIDELITY. 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, can not be surmounted by any proof whatever from testimony, because this is variable. There is, therefore,... | |
 | Henry Aldrich - 1850 - 406 pàgines
...violation of the laws of nature: and, as firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...argument from experience can possibly be imagined. (Hume.-) 8. My friend tells me that he suffers much from lumbago. But that complaint is completely... | |
 | William Henry Ruffner - 1852 - 692 pàgines
...violation of the law of nature, and as a firm and unalterable experience has established that law, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...argument from experience can possibly be imagined." ': Nothing is a miracle that happens in the common course of nature. It is no miracle that a man seemingly... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1852 - 356 pàgines
...violation of the laws of nature ; — and, as a firm and unalterable experience has established those laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...argument from experience can possibly be imagined : ' — Again — ' As a uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and/wK proof,... | |
 | John Kitto - 1852 - 536 pàgines
...what he proceeds to remark, that " as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...argument from experience can possibly be imagined."" But the fallacy lies in the premiss. A violation of the laws of nature is tantamount to a resistance... | |
 | sir George Ramsay (9th bart.) - 1853 - 282 pàgines
...violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established those laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...argument from experience can possibly be imagined." In due syllogistic form, the argument would stand thus : Whatever is opposed to a firm and unalterable... | |
 | Edward Miall - 1853 - 464 pàgines
...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 complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and if so, it is an undeniable... | |
 | 1853 - 588 pàgines
...unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature o: the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined and if so, it is an undeniable consequence, that it cannot be surmounted by any proof whatever from... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 pàgines
...yiolatipp of t,h,p lfliwn of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...argument from experience can possibly be imagined. Why is it more than probable that all men imist die ; that lead cannot, of itself, remain suspended... | |
 | George Long - 1855 - 368 pàgines
...violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established those laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...argument from experience can possibly be imagined." It is obvious that the force of this argument turns entirely on the meaning which is assigned to the... | |
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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. 
