 | David Hume - 1804 - 552 σελίδες
...strongest must prevail, but still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist; A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and...established these laws; the proof against a miracle, from the1 very nature cf the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.... | |
 | 1804 - 994 σελίδες
...assurance against the fact which they endeavour to establish. A miracle,' he says, • is a \ iolalion of the laws of nature ; and, as a firm and unalterable experience has establisluxl these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire... | |
 | 1817 - 798 σελίδες
...impossible rh.it such an event should be made credible to me. " Л miracle (he says) is a viola/ion of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, . tlu proof against а mirarle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from... | |
 | George Campbell - 1807 - 294 σελίδες
...must prevail, " but still with a diminution of its force, in " proportion to that of its antagonist. A ** miracle is a violation of the laws of nature...against ".a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, " js as entire, as any argument from experir * P. 179. " ence can possibly be imagined. * And if "... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1807 - 508 σελίδες
...miracle being a violation of the laws of nature, which a firm and unalterable experience has established, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature...fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can be : whereas our experience of human veracity, which (according to him) is the sole foundation of the... | |
 | John Douglas - 1807 - 432 σελίδες
...or miraculous nature of the events they relate ? % P. 1^4— 5. S 17*. tt " A miracle," fays he, " is a violation " of the laws of nature, and as a firm and *' unalterable experience has eftablifhed " thefe laws, the proof againft a miracle <e from the very nature of the faft, is as "... | |
 | George Campbell - 1807 - 530 σελίδες
...convinced of this, if you attend but a little to the strain of the argument. " A miracle," says he, '' is a " violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unaltera" ble experience hath established these laws, the proof against " a miracle is as entire, as... | |
 | 1808 - 614 σελίδες
...attested be miraculous, here arises л contest of two opposite experience«, or proof against proof. Now a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience ha* established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is ль... | |
 | 1808 - 604 σελίδες
...Now a miracle is 4 violation of the laws of nature ; and a« a firm and unalterable experience ha* established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as complete as anjr argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and if so, it is an undeniable... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 556 σελίδες
...strongest must prevail, but still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and...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... | |
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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. 
