 | John Leland - Apologetics - 1837 - 784 pages
...essay, as its grand sum and corollary, into the following position: " That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle; unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more improbable than the fact which it endeavours to establish!" We frequently find Mr. Hume arguing in... | |
 | Charles Babbage - Natural theology - 1837 - 266 pages
...so translated, stands thus : — • That no testimony is sufficient to establish an improbability, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more improbable than the occurrence of the fact which it endeavours to establish. But the " fact which it... | |
 | Charles Babbage - 1837 - 260 pages
...p. 117. Replacing this in Hume's argument, it stands thus — " That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, " unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its truth " would be more probable than the fact which it endea" vours to establish." The argument is now... | |
 | Charles Babbage - Natural theology - 1838 - 300 pages
...consequence is (and it is a general maxim " worthy of our attention), that no testimony is sufficient " to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such..." there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and thesuperior " only gives us an assurance suitable to that degree of force " which remains after deducting... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - Revelation - 1838 - 516 pages
...experience cannot prove can never be evinced by testimony. No testimony, therefore, is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such...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,... | |
 | Sarah Renou - 1838 - 244 pages
...witnesses, is five times as great as the improbability against the miracle." And has not only shown that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavoured to establish, but that a miracle may be only the exact fulfilment of a general law of nature... | |
 | 1839 - 446 pages
...an opposite proof which is superior. The plain consequence is, " that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would 1>e mure miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish : and even in that case there is... | |
 | William Warburton - 1841 - 496 pages
...summed up in what he calls " a general maxim worthy our attention, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such...force which remains after deducting the inferior." (p. 182.) Now, to pass at present the jargon of his more miraculous, and to suppose he may mean a testimony... | |
 | Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - 1841 - 80 pages
...testimony," says he, " is sufficient to establish " a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a nature that its " falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it " endeavours to establish :" the term " prodigy" also (which he all along employs as synonymous with " miracle") is applied to... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - Apologetics - 1843 - 468 pages
...of the question. " 'T is a general maxim worthy of our attention, that no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such...miraculous, than the fact which it endeavours to establish." — " When any one tells me," he continues in the same .paragraph, " that he saw a dead man restored... | |
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That no testimony is sufficient to 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 even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments,... 
