 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
 | Beverly Waugh Bond - 1880 - 300 σελίδες
...nature, which a firm and unalterable experience, has established, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is- as entire as any argument...be, whereas our experience of human veracity, which is the sole foundation of the evidence of testimony, is far from being uniform, and can therefore never... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1880 - 370 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. [E.] 36. The imagination and affections have a close union together The vivacity of the... | |
 | Jeffrey Burton Russell - 1992 - 308 σελίδες
...as firm and unalterable 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"... | |
 | Robert J. Fogelin - 1992 - 270 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. (E 1 14, emphasis added) Passage II. There must . . . be a uniform experience... | |
 | C. Stephen Evans - 1992 - 228 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" (An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding [Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Publishing... | |
 | David Hume, Eric Steinberg - 1993 - 170 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,... | |
 | Ronald H. Nash - 1994 - 300 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."8 In the view of those who hold this interpretation, the laws of nature tell... | |
 | William Lane Craig - 1994 - 354 σελίδες
...as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, a proof against miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined."3 Thus, proof stands against proof, and the scales are evenly balanced. Since... | |
 | Wolfhart Pannenberg - 1991 - 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" (An Inquiry concerning Human Understanding [1748], 10.1). 107. B. de Spinoza,... | |
 | John Polkinghorne - 1995 - 132 σελίδες
...as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined." The confidence that the laws of nature were known with a certainty that extends... | |
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