 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.  A Theological Dictionary - Σελίδα 138των Charles Buck - 1810Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | sir George Ramsay (9th bart.) - 1853 - 282 σελίδες
...a firm and unalterable experience has established those 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." In due syllogistic form, the argument would stand thus : Whatever is opposed... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 σελίδες
...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. Why is it more than probable that all men imist die ; that lead cannot, of itself,... | |
 | George Long - 1855 - 368 σελίδες
...a firm and unalterable experience has established those 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." It is obvious that the force of this argument turns entirely on the meaning... | |
 | Harvey Goodwin (bp. of Carlisle.) - 1856 - 304 σελίδες
...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 .... There must, therefore, be an uniform experience against any miraculous event,... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1856 - 384 σελίδες
...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. And if so, it is an undeniable consequence, that it cannot be surmounted by any... | |
 | John Watts - 1857 - 210 σελίδες
...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. Why is it more than probable that all men must die; that lead cannot, of itself,... | |
 | 1859 - 252 σελίδες
...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." "The plain consequence is, that no,, testimony is sufficient to establish a... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 424 σελίδες
...Essays," vol. ii., Note K, p. 479. 44 THE PRESUMPTION OF A SCEPTIC. the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." * Here are two propositions : one, that what a firm and unalterable experience... | |
 | Peter Hardeman Burnett - 1860 - 812 σελίδες
...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." The language of this proposition, if taken in its strict literal sense, is stronger,... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - 1860 - 564 σελίδες
...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."* Here are two propositions : one, that what a firm and unalterable experience... | |
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