 | David Hume - Ethics - 1902 - 419 pages
...total darkness over the whole earth for eight days : suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people:...that our present philosophers, instead of doubting the fact, ought to receive it as certain, and ought to search for the causes whence it might be derived.... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1907 - 324 pages
...total darkness over the whole earth for eight days: suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people:...that our present philosophers, instead of doubting the fact, ought to receive it as certain, and ought to search for the causes whence it might be derived.... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - Apologetics - 1909 - 384 pages
...tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people ; that all travelers who return from foreign countries bring us accounts...that our present philosophers, instead of doubting the fact, ought to receive it as certain." "But," he adds, with reference, however, to another example,... | |
 | David Hume - Electronic books - 1750 - 272 pages
...whole Earth for eight Days : Snppofe that the Tradition of this extraordinary Event, is ftill ftrong and lively among the People : That all Travellers,...return from foreign Countries, bring us Accounts of the fame Tradition, without the leaft Variation or Contradiction } 'tis evident, that our prefent Philofophers,... | |
 | John Hedley Brooke - Religion - 1991 - 450 pages
...total darkness over the whole earth for eight days: suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people:...that our present philosophers, instead of doubting the fact, ought to receive it as certain, and ought to search for the causes whence it might be derived.10... | |
 | Diogenes Allen, Eric O. Springsted - Philosophy - 1992 - 324 pages
...total darkness over the whole earth for eight days: suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people:...that our present philosophers, instead of doubting the fact, ought to receive it as certain, and ought to search for the causes whence it might be derived.... | |
 | David Hume, Eric Steinberg - Philosophy - 1993 - 170 pages
...total darkness over the whole earth for eight days: Suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people:...that our present philosophers, instead of doubting the fact, ought to receive it as certain, and ought to search for the causes whence it might be derived.... | |
 | R. Douglas Geivett, Gary R. Habermas - Religion - 1997 - 340 pages
...tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people: that all travelers, who return from foreign countries, bring us accounts...that our present philosophers, instead of doubting the fact, ought to receive it as certain, and ought to search for the causes whence it might be derived.... | |
 | David Hume, Richard H. Popkin - Religion - 1998 - 158 pages
...tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people: That all travelers, who return from foreign countries, bring us accounts...that our present philosophers, instead of doubting the fact, ought to receive it as certain, and ought to search for the causes whence it might be derived.... | |
 | James Fieser - Philosophy - 2005 - 500 pages
...retort upon Mr Hume in the preceding paragraph, in relation to the freezing of water, - which see. the people; that all travellers, who return from foreign...ought to search for the causes whence it might be derived.'50 Could one imagine, that the person who had made the above acknowledgment, a person too... | |
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Thus, suppose, all authors, in all languages agree that from the first of January 1600 there was a total darkness over the whole earth for eight days: Suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people:... 
