 ... or be deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other; and according to the superiority which I discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood...  The Philosophical Works of David Hume ... - Page 131by David Hume - 1826Full view - About this book
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1902 - 419 pages
...decision, and always reject the greater miracle If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous, than the event which he relates ; then, and not till...pretend to command my belief or opinion. PART II. 82 In the foregoing reasoning we have supposed, that the testimony, upon which a miracle is founded,... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1907 - 324 pages
...a force requisite for that purpose, is as rea] a miracle, though not so sensible with regard to us. relates; then, and not till then, can he pretend to...which a miracle is founded, may possibly amount to an entire proof, and that the falsehood of that testimony would be a real prodigy : But it is easy... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1913 - 156 pages
...decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates, then, and not till then, can he pretend to demand my belief or opinion." We need not fear this test, and can turn it in our case against Hume... | |
 | Edgar Arthur Singer - Philosophers - 1923 - 350 pages
...decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates; then, and not till...then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion." As a specimen of the manner in which Hume would have one weigh the probabilitites for and against miracles,... | |
 | Eldred Cornelius Vanderlaan - Fundamentalism - 1925 - 500 pages
...and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous, than the event which he relates ; then, and not till...then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion. A SIMILAR MODERN CONTENTION1 It seems clear that completely isolated exceptions to the laws of nature... | |
 | Ernest Campbell Mossner - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 768 pages
...and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous, than the event which he relates ; then, and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opininn.1 The second part of this essay enumerates several difficulties in the proof of miracles :... | |
 | David Hume - Electronic books - 1750 - 272 pages
...Decifion, and always reject the greater Miracle. IF the Falfhood of his Teftimony would be more miraculous, than the Event, which he relates ; then, and not till then, can be pretend to command my Belief or Opinion. PART PART II. IN the foregoing Reafoning we hare fuppos'd,... | |
 | Michael Levine - Philosophy - 1989 - 234 pages
...believing such testimony. He says, "If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous that the event which he relates; then, and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion" (Enquiries, p. 116). However, Hume is talking tongue in cheek here.9 To take this as a serious factual... | |
 | Michael Alexander Stewart - Philosophy - 1990 - 340 pages
...relates, should really have happened. ... If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous, than the event which he relates; then, and not till...then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion. (E. 1 15-16) With this formulation, which concludes Part One of *Of miracles', Hume had established... | |
 | Diogenes Allen, Eric O. Springsted - Philosophy - 1992 - 324 pages
...decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates; then, and not till...which a miracle is founded, may possibly amount to an entire proof, ^Sometimes an event may not, in itself, seem to be contrary to the laws of nature,... | |
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