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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects - Page 121
by David Hume - 1809
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

David Hume - Commerce - 1758 - 568 pages
...lihere is a mutual de*' ftruction of arguments, and the fuperior only gives us an aflurance fuitable to *' that degree of force, which remains, after deducting the inferior." When any one tells me, that he faw a dead man reftored to life, I immediately confider with myfelf, whether it be more probable, that...
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A view of the principal deistical writers ... in England in the ..., Volume 1

John Leland - 1764 - 426 pages
...there is a " mutual deftruction of arguments, and the fuperiority only " gives us an affurance fuitable to that degree of force, which " remains after deducting the inferior. When any one tells me, * Hume's Philofophical Eflays, p. 181. '* that he faw a dead man reftored to life, I immediately con"...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects ...: Essays, moral, political, and ...

David Hume - Ethics, Modern - 1764 - 524 pages
...there is a mutual deftruclion of " arguments, and the fuperior only gives us an aflurance " fuitable to that degree of force, which remains, after " deducting the inferior." When anyone tells me, that he faw a dead man reftored to life, I immediately confider with myfelf, whether...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...acquaintances must last longest, if they do last ; and then, Sir, young men have more virtue than old 1 ' When any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...acquaintances must last longest, if they do last ; and then, Sir, young men have more virtue than old ' ' When any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: In Two Volumes

David Hume - Economics - 1804 - 552 pages
...appellation; And as an uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and full proof, from th« nature of the fact^ against the existence of any miracle...tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable, that this person should either deceive...
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The Monthly repository (and review)., Volume 12

1817 - 798 pages
...that its falsehood AvoiiM be more miraculous, than the tact -which it endeavours to establish : arid even, in that case, there is a mutual destruction...arguments, and the Superior only gives us an assurance «uitahlr to that degree of force which remains after deducting the inferior." In the above quotation,...
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An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ...

David Hume - 1817 - 528 pages
...a miracle, unless the testimony be of such " a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous " than the fact which it endeavours to establish : And...any one tells me that he saw a dead man restored to lifev I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either...
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The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Volume 12

Liberalism (Religion) - 1817 - 780 pages
...establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact which it endeavours to establish : and...force which remains after deducting the inferior." la the above quotation, Mr. Hume ftiumtt the utter incapacity of testimony to prove a miracle. That...
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A history of the holy Bible, corrected and improved by G. Gleig, Volume 3

Thomas Stackhouse - 1817 - 636 pages
...kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish — When any one tells me, that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself, whether it be more probable, that this person should either deceive...
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