 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.  Lectures on Ecclesiastical History - الصفحة 416بواسطة George Campbell - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 503عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | John Earman - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 236
...as. if we had not had a previous and independent faith in testimony. we could never have acquired." How natural is the transition from one sophism to...he. "is a violation of the laws of nature: and as a lirm and unalterable experience hath established these laws. the proof against a miracle is as entire... | |
 | Paul Copan, Ronald K. Tacelli - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 208
...Hume, there can never be a good reason to believe that such an event really happened. For a "miracle is a violation of the laws of nature, and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, a proof against miracle, from the very nature of... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 389
...church. Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 15 (1776) 8 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... | |
 | Stuart C. Brown - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 214
...prevail, hut still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist. 12 A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterahle experience has estahlished these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
 | Michael F. Palmer - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...prevail, but still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist. 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... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 772
...and concerning the Principles of Morals (1966), section X, 'Of Miracles', part I, p. 86: 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... | |
 | Anne Jordan, Neil Lockyer, Edwin Tate - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 246
...impossible, but that it would be impossible for us ever to prove that one had happened. He writes: 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... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...ARGUMENT A RADICAL FALLACY We now have to consider Hume's arguments. The first is as follows: "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... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 238
...person proportions his belief to the evidence: a certainty always overbalances a probability: "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... | |
 | Michael Huemer - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 636
...prevail, but still with a diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist. A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable 223 experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature... | |
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