 | Walter Richard Cassels - Bible - 1879 - 600 pages
...deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle, against the other ; and according to the superiority which...event which he relates, then, and not till then, can lie pretend to command my belief or opinion."1 The ground upon winch Mr. Mill admits that a miracle... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - 1879 - 628 pages
...have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other ; and according to the superiority which 1 discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject...till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion."1 The ground upon which Mr. Mill admits that a miracle may not be contradictory to complete... | |
 | Joseph William Reynolds - Miracles - 1881 - 482 pages
...happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other ; and according to the superiority which I can discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject...then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion." Here again is the fatal fallacy which assumes that the rareness and marvellous nature of an event tell... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1885 - 432 pages
...deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other ; and according to the superiority, which...then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion. An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. HIS OWN CHARACTER. IN spring 1775, I was struck with a disorder... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1885 - 430 pages
...deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other; and according to the superiority, which...then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion. An Enquiry contenting Human Understanding. HIS OWN CHARACTER. IN spring I77J) I was struck with a disorder... | |
 | John Skelton - Scotland - 1887 - 418 pages
...deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other ; and according to the superiority which...till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion."—On Human Understanding, section 10 — Of Miracles. Whately's " Historic Doubts concerning... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - English prose literature - 1888 - 368 pages
...deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other; and according to the superiority which...then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion. LAURENCE STERNE. 1713-1769. ON HOBBY HORSES. DC gustibus non est disputandum : that is, there is no... | |
 | 1889 - 228 pages
...that platform. ' Always,' says Hume, ' reject the greater miracle.' ' If the falsehood of a witness' testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then, and then only, can he command my belief or opinion.' Very well, then. " We ask for no greater concession.... | |
 | Charles Gore - Christianity - 1891 - 336 pages
...deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other; and according to the superiority, which...then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion.' I ought to state that in the imaginary case which I have taken from Mary Barton the evidence for the... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1902 - 419 pages
...deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other; and according to the superiority, which...pretend to command my belief or opinion. PART II. 82 In the foregoing reasoning we have supposed, that the testimony, upon which a miracle is founded,... | |
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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 or be deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happened. I weigh... 
