 | Walter Richard Cassels - Bible - 1874 - 550 pages
...testimony, he concludes : " 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 1 Bampton Lectures, 1865, p. 48. 1 11., p. 49. 1 Hume's Philosophical Works. Adams... | |
 | William Forsyth - Criticism - 1874 - 482 pages
...argument against miracles is, 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 ; and that no human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, because it is always more... | |
 | 1875 - 596 pages
...contrary. He maintains 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." In a word, mistakes and lies are of daily experience, whilst a miracle... | |
 | John Thomson (Minister of Free St. George's, Paisley.) - 1876 - 250 pages
...to miracles. Hume candidly admitted that human testimony might prove a miracle, if " the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish," — unless indeed it were wrought "in support of religion ! " And... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 1146 pages
...inconceivable. The case completely fulfils Hume's condition that, to establish a miracle, " the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more, miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish." It seems idle to draw " psychological parallels," as has recently... | |
 | Walter Richard Cassels - 1879 - 628 pages
...worthy of our attention), ' 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,... | |
 | Henry Wace - 1880 - 424 pages
...that the case completely fulfils the requirement of Hume — that to prove a miracle, ' the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish w .' They will listen to such claims with awe, and they will either... | |
 | Logan Mitchell - 1881 - 258 pages
...imagined ; and, therefore, 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 endeavors to establish." This argument is absolutely invincible. The boundless plenum of Nature... | |
 | John Cunningham - Scotland - 1882 - 942 pages
...startling proposition, 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." Yet, with all his philosophical scepticism, Hume was a man of exemplary... | |
 | John James Lias - Miracles - 1883 - 300 pages
...before him. He says " 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." Or, as Paley summarizes it yet more tersely ; " it is contrary to... | |
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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... 
