 | James Fieser - Philosophy - 2005 - 500 pages
...fact, from the report of eyewitnesses, 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 such as has seldom fallen under our observation,... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 2000 - 460 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... | |
 | David J. Owens - Belief and doubt - 2000 - 212 pages
...the importance of testimony does not mean he thinks it fundamental: [O]ur assurance in any argument of this kind is derived from no other principle than...usual conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses. (Hume 1975: 111) The reason why we place any credit in witnesses and historians, is not derived from... | |
 | John Earman - Electronic books - 2000 - 236 pages
...sufllcient to observe that our assurance in any argument of this kind fLe.. one based on testimonyj is derived from no other principle than our observation...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... | |
 | James Fieser - Apologetics - 2000 - 340 pages
...from the report of eye-witnesses is derived from no other principle than experience; that is, from our observation of the veracity of human testimony, and of the usual conformity of facts to the report of witnesses. This doctrine is confuted with great elegance and precision, and with invincible... | |
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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. 
