A Dissertation on Miracles: Containing an Examination of the Principles Advanced by David Hume, Esq. in an Essay on MiraclesMundell, Doig, & Stevenson, 1807 - 240 páginas |
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... seems , however , immediate- ly sensible , that in asserting this , he hath gone too far ; and therefore , in the end of the same paragraph , retracts part of what he had ad- vanced in the beginning . " We may esta- " blish it as a ...
... seems , however , immediate- ly sensible , that in asserting this , he hath gone too far ; and therefore , in the end of the same paragraph , retracts part of what he had ad- vanced in the beginning . " We may esta- " blish it as a ...
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... seems to be an axiom of this writer , is at least not so incontestible a truth as he supposes it ; that on the contrary , testimony hath a natural and original influence on belief , antecedent to ex- perience , will , I imagine , easily ...
... seems to be an axiom of this writer , is at least not so incontestible a truth as he supposes it ; that on the contrary , testimony hath a natural and original influence on belief , antecedent to ex- perience , will , I imagine , easily ...
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... seems to fancy he can perform wonders . I wish he had been a little more explicit in teaching us how these rare inventions must be used . When a writer of genius and elocution expresses him- self in general terms , he will find it an ...
... seems to fancy he can perform wonders . I wish he had been a little more explicit in teaching us how these rare inventions must be used . When a writer of genius and elocution expresses him- self in general terms , he will find it an ...
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... experience , and what is not conformable to it . The one he allows may be proved by testimony , but not the other . A distinc- tion , for which the author seems to have so * P . 179 . Sect . 2. PROOF FROM TESTIMONY . 41.
... experience , and what is not conformable to it . The one he allows may be proved by testimony , but not the other . A distinc- tion , for which the author seems to have so * P . 179 . Sect . 2. PROOF FROM TESTIMONY . 41.
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... seems to have so great use , it will not be improper to exa- mine . If my reader happen to be but little ac- quainted with Mr. Hume's writings , or even with the piece here examined , I must en- treat him , ere he proceed any farther ...
... seems to have so great use , it will not be improper to exa- mine . If my reader happen to be but little ac- quainted with Mr. Hume's writings , or even with the piece here examined , I must en- treat him , ere he proceed any farther ...
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Página 57 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Página 217 - I am the better pleased with the method of reasoning here delivered, as I think it may serve to confound those dangerous friends or disguised enemies to the Christian Religion, who have undertaken to defend it by the principles of human reason. Our most holy religion...
Página 56 - 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 the fact which it would endeavour to establish.
Página 220 - So that, upon the whole, we may conclude that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity : and whoever is moved by faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.
Página 147 - One of the best attested miracles in all profane history, is that which Tacitus reports of Vespasian, who cured a blind man in Alexandria, by means of his spittle, and a lame man by the mere touch of his foot...
Página 152 - To which, if we add the public nature of the facts, as related, it will appear that no evidence can well be supposed stronger for so gross and so palpable a falsehood.
Página 11 - The very same principle of experience which gives us a certain degree of assurance in the testimony of witnesses, gives us also, in this case, another degree of assurance against the fact which they endeavour to establish ; from which contradiction there necessarily arises a counterpoise, and mutual destruction of belief and authority.
Página 165 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
Página 83 - The plain consequence is (and it is a general maxim 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...
Página 81 - When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact which he relates should really have happened.