 | David Hume - 1907 - 326 ページ
...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...command my belief or opinion. PART II. In the foregoing reasoning we have supposed, that the testimony, upon which a miracle is founded, may possibly amount... | |
 | Philip Schaff - 1913 - 156 ページ
...discover, I pronounce my 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 - 1923 - 346 ページ
...discover I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates;...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 - 1925 - 498 ページ
...discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous, than the event which he...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 - 2001 - 768 ページ
...discover, I pronounce my decisinn, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous, than the event which he...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 - 1750 - 272 ページ
...Superiority, which I difcover, I pronounce my 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, Michael P. Levine - 1989 - 234 ページ
...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 - 1990 - 340 ページ
...that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened. ... If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous, than the event which he...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 - 1992 - 324 ページ
...discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates;...command my belief or opinion. Part II In the foregoing reasoning we have supposed that the testimony, upon which a miracle is founded, may possibly amount... | |
 | James W. Cornman, Keith Lehrer, George Sotiros Pappas - 1992 - 396 ページ
...discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates,...till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion.13 12. David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, ed. by LA SelbyBigge, rev. PH... | |
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... person should either deceive 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... 
