 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...  History of Philosophy - Page 429by Alfred Weber - 1896 - 630 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 788 pages
...miracle. " No testimony (says he) 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. When one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 540 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... | |
 | Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 636 pages
...miracle. " No testimony, says he, (b) is sufficient M 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 — When any one tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 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... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1817 - 780 pages
...designed to show " 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... | |
 | Thomas Renwick - 1820 - 360 pages
...observed, he says, that 164 " 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 I shall leave it to the world to decide, whether the evidence to the... | |
 | Arminianism - 1881 - 1046 pages
...testimony completely fulfils the requirement of Hume, namely, that to prove a miracle ' the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.' To us it seems that he has done little more than indicate the line of argument... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 880 pages
...miracle. " No testimony (says he) 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. When one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider... | |
 | Christopher Benson - 1824 - 500 pages
...important maxim ; " 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 it endeavours to establish." And even in that case he maintains, that " there is a mutual destruction... | |
 | Christopher Benson - Apologetics - 1824 - 500 pages
...important maxim ; •" 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 it endeavours to establish." And even in that case he maintains, that " there is a mutual destruction... | |
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