 | David J. Owens - Belief and doubt - 2000 - 210 pages
...it fundamental: [O]ur assurance in any argument of this kind is derived from no other principle than our observation of the veracity of human testimony, and of the usual conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses. (Hume 1975: 111) The reason why we place any credit in witnesses and historians,... | |
 | John Earman - Electronic books - 2000 - 236 pages
...in any argument of this kind fLe.. one based on testimonyj is derived from no other principle than our observation of the veracity of human testimony. and of the usual conformity of the facts to the reports of witnesses. lE tn: t42l The reason. why we place any credit in witnesses... | |
 | Michael F. Palmer - Cosmology - 2001 - 388 pages
...to observe that our assurance in any argument of this kind is derived from no other principle than our observation of the veracity of human testimony, and of the usual conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses. It being a general maxim, that no objects have any discoverable connexion together,... | |
 | Miguel A. Badía Cabrera - History - 2001 - 358 pages
...for the assurance we repose upon them is derived exclusively from experience,l8 that is, from "the observation of the veracity of human testimony and of the usual conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses" (EHU, lll): No man can have any other experience but his own. The experience... | |
 | Various - Philosophy - 2002 - 596 pages
...to observe that our assurance in any argument of this kind is derived from no other principle than our observation of the veracity of human testimony...usual conformity of facts to the report of witnesses. It being a general maxim that no objects have any discoverable connection together, and that all the... | |
 | Robert J. Fogelin - Philosophy - 2010 - 128 pages
...to observe, that our assurance in any argument of this kind is derived from no other principle than our observation of the veracity of human testimony, and of the usual conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses. (EHU, 10.5) That is, in deciding whether a body of testimony is reliable, we... | |
 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - Enlightenment - 2003 - 496 pages
...to observe that our assurance in any argument of this kind is derived from no other principle than our observation of the veracity of human testimony, and of the usual conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses. It being a general maxim, that no objects have any discoverable connexion together,... | |
 | Gordon Graham - Philosophy - 2004 - 264 pages
...to observe, that our assurance in any argument of this kind is derived from no other principle than our observation of the veracity of human testimony,...usual conformity of facts to the report of witnesses. It being a general maxim that no objects have any discoverable connection together, and that all the... | |
 | Rick Kennedy - Business & Economics - 2004 - 296 pages
...to observe that our assurance in any argument of this kind is derived from no other principle than our observation of the veracity of human testimony, and of the usual conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses. It being a general maxim, that no objects have any discoverable connexion together,... | |
 | R A Duff - Law - 2004 - 219 pages
...spectators [. . .] [O]ur assurance in any argument of this kind is derived from no other principle than our observation of the veracity of human testimony, and of the usual conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses. It being a general maxim, that no objects have any discoverable connexion together,... | |
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It will be sufficient to observe that our assurance in any argument of this kind is derived from no other principle than our observation of the veracity of human testimony, and of the usual conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses. 
