 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.  Aids to Faith: A Series of Theological Essays - Page 21edited by - 1862 - 538 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Miall - 1853 - 464 pages
...attested be miraculous, there arises a contest of two opposite experiences, or proof against proof. Now a miracle is a violation of the laws of Nature ; and...a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as complete as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined ; and if so, it is an undeniable... | |
 | 1853 - 588 pages
...dissolve into thin air. We will state Mr. Hume's argument in his own words : "A miracle," saysh^ " is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm...the proof against a miracle, from the very nature o: the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined and if so, it is... | |
 | sir George Ramsay (9th bart.) - 1853 - 282 pages
...reduced to the form of a syllogism in the first figure ; and for that very reason it is nugatory. " A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and...a firm and unalterable experience has established those laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 576 pages
...diminution of its force, in proportion to that of its antagonist. A miracle is a yiolatipp of t,h,p lfliwn of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience...argument from experience can possibly be imagined. Why is it more than probable that all men imist die ; that lead cannot, of itself, remain suspended... | |
 | James Fieser - 2005 - 500 pages
...convinced of this, if you attend but a little to the strain of the argument. 'A miracle,' says he, 'is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience bath established these laws, the proof against a miracle is as entire, as any argument from experience... | |
 | P.J. Bagley - 1999 - 312 pages
...an entire proof; in that case, there is proof against proof, of which the strongest must prevail... A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and, as a firm and inalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against any miracle, for the very nature... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pages
...Christian 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...argument from experience can possibly be imagined. David Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, x (1748) i The laws of nature had sometimes been... | |
 | David Ray Griffin - 2000 - 368 pages
...with Hume's argument. The essence of this argument, as quoted by Price (SS, 148-49), runs as follows: A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and...entire as any argument from experience can possibly be. ... no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that... | |
 | David Hume - 2000 - 460 pages
...must prevail, but 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...fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can 2i PLUTARCH, in vita CATONIS. " No INDIAN, it is evident, could have experience that water did not... | |
 | Stuart C. Brown - 2001 - 212 pages
...must prevail, but 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...fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possiblv be imagined. Why is it more than probable, that all men must die; that lead cannot, of itself,... | |
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