 | Edward Miall - 1853 - Страниц: 464
...opposite experiences, or proof against proof. Now a miracle is a violation of the laws of Nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and if so, it is an undeniable... | |
 | 1853 - Страниц: 588
...Hume's argument in his own words : "A miracle," saysh^ " is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established...the proof against a miracle, from the very nature o: the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined and if so, it is... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - Страниц: 576
...in proportion to that of its antagonist. A miracle is a yiolatipp of t,h,p lfliwn of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established...argument from experience can possibly be imagined. Why is it more than probable that all men imist die ; that lead cannot, of itself, remain suspended... | |
 | George Long - 1855 - Страниц: 368
...a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established those laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...argument from experience can possibly be imagined." It is obvious that the force of this argument turns entirely on the meaning which is assigned to the... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1856 - Страниц: 384
...force in proportion to that of its antagonist. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established...argument from experience can possibly be imagined. And if so, it is an undeniable consequence, that it cannot be surmounted by any proof whatever from... | |
 | Harvey Goodwin (bp. of Carlisle.) - 1856 - Страниц: 304
...very valuable kind. ' NOTE 18. Hume says, " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established...argument from experience can possibly be imagined .... There must, therefore, be an uniform experience against any miraculous event, otherwise the event... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - Страниц: 210
...man before by the same number of words: — 'A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established...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... | |
 | 1859 - Страниц: 252
...in a well known author of the last century. "A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established...argument from experience can possibly be imagined." "The plain consequence is, that no,, testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony... | |
 | Peter Hardeman Burnett - 1860 - Страниц: 812
...this comprehensive position : " A miracle," he says, " is the violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established...argument from experience can possibly be imagined." The language of this proposition, if taken in its strict literal sense, is stronger, perhaps, than... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - Страниц: 554
...exacts. He says, in the same chapter, — " A miracle is a violation of the laws of Nature ; and, as a firm and unalterable experience has established...argument from experience can possibly be imagined."* Here are two propositions : one, that what a firm and unalterable experience establishes is a law of... | |
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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. 
