 | David Hume, Eric Steinberg - 1993 - 170 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. 43. Sometimes an event may not, in itself, seem to be contrary to the laws of nature, and yet, if it... | |
 | Ronald H. Nash - 1994 - 300 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...till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion.14 Suppose you and I had been part of the small group present in the room where the wounded... | |
 | Don Garrett Associate Professor of Philosophy University of Utah - 1996 - 289 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. (EHU $91) Yet as we have seen, Hume defines a "miracle" as a "violation of a law of nature," and he... | |
 | R. Douglas Geivett, Gary R. Habermas - 1997 - 340 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. 34 In Deftnte of Miracles Part II In the foregoing reasoning we have supposed, that the testimony,... | |
 | David Hume, Richard H. Popkin - 1998 - 158 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. PART/7. In the foregoing reasoning we have supposed, that the testimony, upon which a miracle is founded,... | |
 | Joseph Theodoor Leerssen - 1999 - 182 ページ
...hoofdstuk 'Of miracles' in Humes Inquiry conceming human understanding: '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.' 52 We moeten het begrip van de 'antropologie' historisch zien. Het gaat in de Verlichtingsantropologie... | |
 | James Fieser - 2005 - 500 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.' At first indeed one is ready to exclaim, What a strange revolution is here! The belief of miracles... | |
 | Paul Rakita Goldin - 1999 - 200 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...till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion.35 Although Tindal's (and Hume's) agenda was completely alien to anything in Xunzi's thinking,... | |
 | John Earman - 2000 - 230 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...can he pretend to command my belief or opinion. Part 2 In the foregoing reasoning we have supposed, that the testimony, upon which a miracle is founded,... | |
 | John Earman - 2000 - 236 ページ
...¡ pronounce my decision. and alwags reject the greater mirncle. 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"' — For such reasons as these. Mr. Hume asserts. "That the evidence of testimony. when applied to a... | |
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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... 
