 | Alexander Mair - Apologetics - 1889 - 432 pages
...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.' * That is, the miracles of the New Testament are proved by testimony, but ' experience ' tells us '... | |
 | Robert A. Larmer - Cooking - 1996 - 172 pages
...conclusion is strengthened when we note that Hume asserts in the second of these paragraphs both that "the proof against a miracle ... is as entire as any...argument from experience can possibly be imagined" A and that a "miracle [can only be] rendered credible ... by an opposite proof which is superior."... | |
 | Charles Babbage - Mathematics - 1989 - 386 pages
...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. The plain consequence is (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), that no testimony is... | |
 | Michael Levine - Philosophy - 1989 - 234 pages
...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 . . . There must ... be a uniform experience against every miraculous event, otherwise that event would... | |
 | James W. Cornman, Keith Lehrer, George Sotiros Pappas - Philosophy - 1992 - 396 pages
...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. . . . Nothing is esteemed a miracle, if it ever happens in the common course of nature. It is no miracle... | |
 | C. Stephen Evans - Philosophy - 1992 - 228 pages
...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" (An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding [Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing Co., 1977], p. 76).... | |
 | Jeffrey Burton Russell - History - 1992 - 308 pages
...experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, in the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." However strong the evidence for a miracle — or for the existence of any "supernatural" figure such... | |
 | Diogenes Allen, Eric O. Springsted - Philosophy - 1992 - 324 pages
...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. Why is it more than probable that all men must die; that lead cannot, of itself, remain suspended in... | |
 | Robert J. Fogelin - Philosophy - 1992 - 270 pages
...superior. (E 115, from Passage II) 2. The proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined. (E 1 14, emphasis added, from Passage I) Therefore: 3. There is ... a direct and full proof , from... | |
 | David Hume, Eric Steinberg - Philosophy - 1993 - 170 pages
...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. Why is it more than probable, that all men must die; that lead cannot, of itself, remain suspended... | |
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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. 
