 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1827 - 512 pages
...confidence in testimony is derived from no other principle, than our observation of the veracity of men, and of the usual conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses. In other words, he makes experience the foundation of our confidence or belief in testimony. But there... | |
 | Robert Owen - Apologetics - 1829 - 568 pages
...fact from the report of eye-witnesses, is derived from no other principle than experience ; that is, our observation of the veracity of human testimony,...conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses." To detect the sophistry of Hume, we must give a true definition oF experience : — '• Experience... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - Apologetics - 1829 - 236 pages
...fact from the report of eye witnesses, is derived from no other principle than experience; that is, our observation of the veracity of human testimony,...usual conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses. Now, if the fact^attested partakes of the marvellous, if it is stfch as has seldom fallen under our... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - Apologetics - 1832 - 256 pages
...fact from the report of eye witnesses, is derived from no other principle, than experience ; that is, our observation of the veracity of human testimony,...usual conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses. Now, if the fact attested partakes of the marvellous, if it i* such as has seldom fallen under our... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 430 pages
...fact from the report of eye-witnesses, is derived from no other principle than experience ; that is, our observation of the veracity of human testimony, and of the usual conformity of facts to the report of witnesses. Now if the fact attested partakes of the marvellous, if it is such as has seldom... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Apologetics - 1836 - 402 pages
...fact from the report of eye-witnesses, is derived from no other principle than experience; that is, our observation of the veracity of human testimony, and of the usual conformity of facts to the report of witnesses. Now if the fact attested partakes of the marvellous, if it is such as has seldom... | |
 | John Leland - Apologetics - 1837 - 784 pages
...other principle than our obser• Philosophical Essays, p. 48. t Ibid. p. 62. t Ibid. p. 176. vation of the veracity of human testimony, and of the usual conformity of facts to the report of witnesses." And he mentions, as grounds of the belief of human testimony, that " men have... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - Revelation - 1838 - 516 pages
...fact, from the report of eye-witnesses, is derived from no other principle than experience ; that is, our observation of the veracity of human testimony,...usual conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses. We can refute his sophism without contesting the point as to an original and instinctive tendency in... | |
 | Robert Owen - 1839 - 556 pages
...fact from the report of eye-witnesses, is derived from no other principle than experience; that is, our observation of the veracity of human testimony,...conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses." To detect the sophistry of Hume, we must give a true definition of experience. Experience is either... | |
 | James Smith - Bible - 1843 - 736 pages
...shall not dispute about a word. It will be sufficient to observe, that our assurance in any argument of this kind is derived from no other principle than...usual conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses. It being a general maxim that no objects have any discoverable connexion together, and that all the... | |
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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. 
