| Charles Gore - Christianity - 1891 - 336 pages
...1875), vol. ii. p. 94: '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 to establish... | |
| Sermons - 1892 - 636 pages
...fifty years, but it has not escaped from it. Instinctive recognition of the •Hume's exact language is "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 endeavors to establish. And... | |
| Alexander Stewart - Apologetics - 1895 - 180 pages
...the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a 1 " The antecedent improbability against a miracle being wrought by a man without a moral object is... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1896 - 786 pages
...nature of the fact is as entire as апт argument from experience can poMlblj be imagined. Again, "That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless the testimony be of snch a kind that Its falsehood would be more mlraculoui than the fact which It endeavours to establish,... | |
| Alfred Weber - Philosophy - 1896 - 652 pages
...that inviolable sanction and authority which always attend received opinions. It is a general maxim 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 endeavors to establish. 1 Although... | |
| Alfred Weber - Philosophy - 1896 - 656 pages
...that inviolable sanction and authority which always attend received opinions. It is a general maxim that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of 1 An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, sect. IX., pp. 85 ff. 2 The Natural History of Religion,... | |
| Alfred Weber - Philosophy - 1896 - 660 pages
...that inviolable sanction and authority which always attend received opinions. It is a general maxim that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be oi 1 An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, sect. EX., pp. 85 ff * The Natural History of Religion,... | |
| Charles Wesley Rishell - Apologetics - 1899 - 654 pages
...insufficiency of any evidence to establish the fact of a miracle. This is summed up by Hume* as follows: "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 endeavors to establish." It... | |
| Alfred Weber - 1899 - 656 pages
...that inviolable sanction and authority which always attend received opinions. It is a general maxim that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of 1 An Enquiry concerning Human Understaniling, sect. IX., pp. 85 ff 3 The Natural History of Religion,... | |
| Harald Høffding - Philosophy, Modern - 1900 - 558 pages
...Miracles Hume discusses more particularly the question of the supernatural. His chief thought here is 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." He... | |
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