 | 1870 - 482 pages
...sentence, which, as he terms it himself, is a maxim worthy of our attention. He affirms that " no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a nature, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.... | |
 | Robert Baker White - Apologetics - 1873 - 366 pages
...of its occurrence. Hume has said that " no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless it be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish." We are ready to adopt the criterion here suggested, and we affirm that it... | |
 | 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...miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish : and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the superior only gives us... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - Bible - 1874 - 550 pages
...evidence ;5 and, bearing in mind the nature of human testimony, he concludes : " That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony...more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours 1 Bampton Lectures, 1865, p. 48. 1 11., p. 49. 1 Hume's Philosophical Works. Adams and C. Black, 1854,... | |
 | 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...falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact, and that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, because it is always more likely... | |
 | 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...its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact ; and that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, because it is always more... | |
 | 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...falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact, and that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, because it is always more likely... | |
 | 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 miracubus than the fact, and that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, because... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1874 - 60 pages
...of a law of nature," plainly shows that he meant to include human nature: "no testimony," says lie, "is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a nature that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish."... | |
 | Richard Whately - Evidence - 1874 - 60 pages
...testimony," says he, ''is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a nature that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish." The term l: prodigy " also (which he all along employs as synonymous with... | |
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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. 
