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
| 1848 - 526 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 that can possibly be imagined ; and, if so, it is an undeniable consequence that it cannot be surmounted... | |
| Henry Aldrich - 1850 - 406 σελίδες
...as 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. (Hume.-) 8. My friend tells me that he suffers much from lumbago. But that complaint... | |
| Charles Buck - 1851 - 888 σελίδες
...unallera'ile experience has established, the proofaffainrt a miracle, from the very nature of 'tu» fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can be; whereas our experience of 1msupposition would compel us to swallow. The very resolution of the apostles to propagate the belief... | |
| William Henry Ruffner - 1852 - 692 σελίδες
...as a firm and unalterable experience has established that law, 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 a miracle that happens in the common course of nature. It is no... | |
| John Kitto - 1852 - 536 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."" But the fallacy lies in the premiss. A violation of the laws of nature is tantamount... | |
| Ralph Wardlaw - 1852 - 356 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 : ' — Again — ' As a uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here... | |
| 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,... | |
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