 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - Страниц: 564
...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... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - Страниц: 424
...1784, vol. ii. p. 122. t " Hume's Essays," vol. ii., Note K, p. 479. 44 THE PRESUMPTION OF A SCEPTIC. the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...argument from experience can possibly be imagined." * Here are two propositions : one, that what a firm and unalterable experience establishes is a law... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - Страниц: 698
...by men to be divine."2 "A miracle," says Mr. Hume,' " 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... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1861 - Страниц: 786
...been more than once refuted. " A miracle," says Hume, " is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established...argument from experience can possibly be imagined." Now what is the proof that there has never been a departure from the laws of nature? Hume certainly... | |
 | David Johnson - 1999 - Страниц: 140
...proof, of which the strongest must prevail. 9 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. 10 And as a uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and 7 Hume, An Enquiry concerning... | |
 | James Campbell - 1999 - Страниц: 316
...The discoveries of 45 Cf. David Hume [1768]: "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" ("Of Miracles," 524). 46 Cf. Thomas Jefferson [1787]: "it does me no injury for my neighbour to say... | |
 | James Fieser - 2005 - Страниц: 500
...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...entire, as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.27 And if so, it is an undeniable consequence, that it cannot be surmounted by any proof whatever... | |
 | P.J. Bagley - 1999 - Страниц: 312
...as a firm and inalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against any miracle, for the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined (Enquiries, p. 1 14). What Fogelin calls the traditional interpretation of this passage claims that,... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - Страниц: 389
...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 15 (1776) 8 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. David Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, x (1748) i The laws of nature had sometimes been... | |
 | John Earman - 2000 - Страниц: 232
...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. Why is it more than probable that all men must die; that lead cannot, of itself, remain suspended in... | |
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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. 
