 | David Hume - Ethics - 1907 - 324 pages
...much less to a proof; and that, evsn supposing it amounted to a proof, it would be opposed by another proof ; derived from the very nature of the fact, which it would endeavour to establish. It is experience only, which gives authority to human testimony; and it is the same experience, which... | |
 | Arthur Cushman McGiffert - Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564 - Theology - 1911 - 288 pages
...much less to a proof ; and that, even supposing it amounted to a proof, it would be opposed by another proof derived from the very nature of the fact which it would endeavour to establish. It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony ; and it is the same experience which... | |
 | Alfred Edward Taylor - Miracles - 1927 - 70 pages
...proof, and even if the testimony, in any case, did amount to proof, it would be opposed by another proof derived from the "very nature of the fact which it would endeavour to establish." Here, as it seems to me, confusion of thought reaches a maximum. To know that it is a fact that no such testimony... | |
 | David Hume - Electronic books - 1750 - 272 pages
...Proof; and that even fuppofing it amounted to a Proof, 'twould be oppos'd by another Proof, deriv'd from the very Nature of the Fact, which it would endeavour to eftablifh. 'Tis Experience only, which gives Authority to human Teftimony ; and 'tis the fame Experience,... | |
 | Patrick Grim - Philosophy - 1990 - 408 pages
...much less to a proof; and that even supposing it amounted to a proof, it would be opposed by another proof; derived from the very nature of the fact, which it would endeavor to establish." Confronted by such a conflict of evidence, and—the interpreter must interject—remembering... | |
 | Diogenes Allen, Eric O. Springsted - Philosophy - 1992 - 324 pages
...much less to a proof; and that, even supposing it amounted to a proof, it would be opposed by another proof; derived from the very nature of the fact, which it would endeavour to establish. It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony; and it is the same experience which... | |
 | David Hume, Eric Steinberg - Philosophy - 1993 - 170 pages
...much less to a proof; and that, even supposing it amounted to a proof, it would be opposed by another proof; derived from the very nature of the fact, which it would endeavour to establish. It is experience only, which gives authority to human testimony; and it is the same experience, which... | |
 | Nancey Murphy - Religion - 1996 - 175 pages
...much less to a proof; and that, even supposing it amounted to a proof, it would be opposed by another proof; derived from the very nature of the fact, which it would endeavour to establish. It is experience only, which gives authority to human testimony; and it is the same experience, which... | |
 | R. Douglas Geivett, Gary R. Habermas - Religion - 1997 - 340 pages
...much less to a proof; and that, even supposing it amounted to a proof, it would be opposed by another proof; derived from the very nature of the fact, which it would endeavor to establish. It is experience only, which gives authority to human testimony; and it is the... | |
 | Don Garrett Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Utah - Philosophy - 1996 - 289 pages
...much less to a proof; and that, even supposing it amounted to a proof, it would be opposed by another proof derived from the very nature of the fact which it would endeavor to establish, (from 4, 5, 15, 18, 19, 20, and 24) 26. It is experience only which gives authority... | |
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Upon the whole, then, it appears that no testimony for any kind of miracle has ever amounted to a probability, much less to a proof ; and that, even supposing it amounted to a proof, it would be opposed by another proof, derived from the very nature of... 
