 | David Hume - 1817 - 540 pages
...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...degree of force which remains after deducting the ii inferior." When any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 636 pages
...sufficient to establish the credibility even of a miracle. " No testimony, says he, (b) is sufficient M establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish — When any one tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself,... | |
 | Thomas Renwick - 1820 - 360 pages
...displayed by Miss M^Woy. It has been well observed, he says, that 164 " No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such...the fact which it endeavours to establish." ." And I shall leave it to the world to decide, whether the evidence to the miracle in question is not fairly... | |
 | Arminianism - 1881 - 1046 pages
...show that the testimony completely fulfils the requirement of Hume, namely, that to prove a miracle ' the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.' To us it seems that he has done little more than indicate the line of argument which leads to that... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 880 pages
...has acknowledged sufficient to establish even a miracle. " No testimony (says he) is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish. When one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether... | |
 | George Campbell - Church of Scotland - 1823 - 590 pages
...GENERAL MAX' IM, worthy of our attention, That NO TESTI' MONY IS SUFFICIENT TO ESTABLISH A MI' EACLE ; UNLESS THE TESTIMONY BE OF SUCH ' A KIND, THAT ITS FALSEHOOD WOULD BE MORE ' IMPROBABLE, THAN THE FACT WHICH IT ' ENDEAVOURS TO ESTABLISH *.' If the reader think himself instructed... | |
 | Christopher Benson - Apologetics - 1824 - 500 pages
...and necessary consequence, this general and important maxim ; •" that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such...its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact it endeavours to establish." And even in that case he maintains, that " there is a mutual destruction... | |
 | Christopher Benson - 1824 - 500 pages
...and necessary consequence, this general and important maxim ; " that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such...its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact it endeavours to establish." And even in that case he maintains, that " there is a mutual destruction... | |
 | George Campbell - Miracles - 1824 - 396 pages
...sequence is, and it is a GENERAL MAXIM, worthy ofouratten* tion, That NO TESTIMONY is SUFFICIENT TO ESTABLISH A ' MIRACLE; UNLESS THE TESTIMONY BE OF SUCH A KIND, * THAT ITS FALSEHOOD WOULD BE MORE IMPROBABLE, 'THAN THE FACT WHICH IT ENDEAVOURS TO ESTABLISH*.' If the reader think himself instructed... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1824 - 300 pages
...should be violated. Hence he lays it down, as a plain consequence, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falshood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish. To an unsophisticated... | |
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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. And even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments,... 
