A Dissertation on Miracles: Containing an Examination of the Principles Advanced by David Hume, Esq. in an Essay on MiraclesMundell, Doig, & Stevenson, 1807 - 240 Seiten |
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... able to ac- quire experience . When , therefore , we say that memory , which gives birth to experi ence , may , nevertheless , in some instances , be corrected by experience , no more is implied , but that the inferences formed from the ...
... able to ac- quire experience . When , therefore , we say that memory , which gives birth to experi ence , may , nevertheless , in some instances , be corrected by experience , no more is implied , but that the inferences formed from the ...
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... able to discover his meaning . Is then so weak a proof from testimony in- capable of being refuted ? I am far from thinking so ; though even so weak a proof could not be overturned by such a contrary experience . How then may it be ...
... able to discover his meaning . Is then so weak a proof from testimony in- capable of being refuted ? I am far from thinking so ; though even so weak a proof could not be overturned by such a contrary experience . How then may it be ...
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... able , there must be no contrary testimony whatever . Yet by the author's own hypo- thesis , the miracles he would thus confute , are supported by testimony . At the same time , to give strength to his argument , he is under a necessity ...
... able , there must be no contrary testimony whatever . Yet by the author's own hypo- thesis , the miracles he would thus confute , are supported by testimony . At the same time , to give strength to his argument , he is under a necessity ...
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... able to it . " * Here a distinction is art- fully suggested , between what is contrary to experience , and what is not conformable to it . The one he allows may be proved by testimony , but not the other . A distinc- tion , for which ...
... able to it . " * Here a distinction is art- fully suggested , between what is contrary to experience , and what is not conformable to it . The one he allows may be proved by testimony , but not the other . A distinc- tion , for which ...
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... able accurately to disprove the testimony , and to trace its " falsehood ; that such an evidence carries " falsehood on the very face of it ; " that " we need but oppose even to a cloud of " witnesses , the absolute impossibility , or ...
... able accurately to disprove the testimony , and to trace its " falsehood ; that such an evidence carries " falsehood on the very face of it ; " that " we need but oppose even to a cloud of " witnesses , the absolute impossibility , or ...
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Seite 57 - 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.
Seite 217 - I am the better pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered, as I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion...
Seite 56 - Upon the whole, then, it appears that no testimony for any kind of miracle has ever amounted to a probability, much less to a proof ; and that, even supposing it amounted to a proof, it would be opposed by another proof, derived from the very nature of the fact which it would endeavour to establish.
Seite 220 - So that, upon the whole, we may conclude that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity : and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
Seite 147 - One of the best attested miracles in all profane history, is that which Tacitus reports of Vespasian, who cured a blind man in Alexandria, by means of his spittle, and a lame man by the mere touch of his foot...
Seite 152 - To which, if we add the public nature of the facts, as related, it will appear that no evidence can well be supposed stronger for so gross and so palpable a falsehood.
Seite 11 - The very same principle of experience which gives us a certain degree of assurance in the testimony of witnesses, gives us also, in this case, another degree of assurance against the fact which they endeavour to establish ; from which contradiction there necessarily arises a counterpoise, and mutual destruction of belief and authority.
Seite 165 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Seite 83 - 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...
Seite 81 - When anyone 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 deceive or be deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happened.