 | Robert Aspland - 1861 - 786 pages
...the credibility of any account of miracles is expressed as follows : " No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." A miracle is a deviation from the ordinary course of nature, and it is therefore evident that one fact... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1862 - 622 pages
...of Hume's argument to be that no testimony is sufficient to establish an improbability, unless that testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more improbable than the occurrence of the fact which it endeavours to establish, it altogether fails to... | |
 | William Thomson - Logic - 1863 - 404 pages
...that in the case of miracles, " there is a mutual destruction of arguments [for and against them], and the superior only gives us an assurance suitable...force which remains after deducting the inferior," he neglects the distinction between mathematical and moral subjects ; in the one, both favourable and... | |
 | William Thomson - Logic - 1863 - 354 pages
...that in the case of miracles, " there is a mutual destruction of arguments [for and against them], and the superior only gives us an assurance suitable...force which remains after deducting the inferior," he neglects the distinction between mathematical and moral subjects ; in the one, both favourable and... | |
 | David Thomas - 1863 - 750 pages
...kind that its fidsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish ; mid even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and tho superior only gives us an assurance suitable to that .degree of force which remains after deducting... | |
 | William Mackergo Taylor - Apologetics - 1865 - 252 pages
...possibly be imagined.' * And if so, it is an undeniable consequence that ' no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless the testimony be of such...falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it would endeavour to establish ; and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1866 - 380 pages
...the same, but a moral absurdity and monstrosity. Hume says, in his. famous "Essay on Miracles : " " When any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be 9 129 more probable that this person should... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1866 - 436 pages
...the same, but a moral absurdity and monstrosity. Hume says, in his famous " Essay on Miracles : " " When any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable that this person should either... | |
 | Theology - 1867 - 902 pages
...Re'nan ; we shall simply set over against him the dictum of Hume, " that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such...even in that case there is a mutual destruction of argument, and the superior only gives us that degree of force which remains after deducting the inferior."... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1871 - 608 pages
...experience can possibly be imagined. . . . The plain consequence is that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such...falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish j and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the... | |
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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,... 
