 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.  The Pamphleteer - Page 488edited by - 1826Full view - About this book
 | Richard Whately - Evidence - 1874 - 60 pages
..."miracle," after having called it a "transgression of a law of nature," plainly shows that he meant to include human nature: "no testimony," says he, ''is...the fact which it endeavors to establish." The term l: prodigy " also (which he all along employs as synonymous with " miracle '') is applied to testimony,... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - Bible - 1874 - 536 pages
...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 :... | |
 | Law - 1874 - 1178 pages
...us believe in any deviation from them. Hume's famous argument against miracles 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, and that no human testimony can have... | |
 | William Forsyth - Criticism - 1874 - 620 pages
...believe in any deviation from them. Hume's famous argument against miracles 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 ; and that no human testimony can have... | |
 | William Forsyth - History - 1874 - 56 pages
...us believe in any deviation from them. Hume's famous argument against miracles 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, and that no human testimony can have... | |
 | Friedrich Ueberweg - 1874 - 580 pages
...criticism. Its doctrine is, " that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish ; and in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the superior only gives us an assurance... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - Bible - 1874 - 550 pages
...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 : and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the... | |
 | Friedrich Ueberweg - Philosophy - 1874 - 580 pages
...criticism. Its doctrine is, " that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish; and in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the superior only gives us an assurance... | |
 | 1875 - 596 pages
...uniform experience amounting to a "full and direct proof" of the contrary. He maintains 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."... | |
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