 | Paul Hyland, Olga Gomez, Francesca Greensides - 2003 - 494 ページ
...I pronounce mv decision, and alwavs relect the greater miracle. If the falsehooel ol his testimony would be more miraculous, than the event which he...then, and not till then, can he pretend to command my belie1 or opinion. i•in Enquicv Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, 'Of Miracles', Part I,... | |
 | Murray Miles - 2003 - 698 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 until then, can he pretend to command my belief and opinion. (149) The irony of the reference to weighing... | |
 | David Hume - 2004 - 116 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...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... | |
 | Gordon Graham - 2004 - 264 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. II In the foregoing reasoning we have supposed, that the testimony upon which a miracle is founded,... | |
 | Laurence W. Wood - 2005 - 348 ページ
...that the witness is mistaken, or that the event really happened? "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." 110This is his main argument against miracles and against the probability that a historical revelation... | |
 | Simon Blackburn - 2005 - 260 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.2-2 This sets a hurdle which it is (almost) impossible for human testimony to surmount, for... | |
 | Phil Dowe - 2005 - 220 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.20 Mackie claims that Hume is countenancing the possibility of having testimonial evidence... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 ページ
...really have happened. I weigh the one miracle against the other. 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 command by belief or opinion. Part II In the foregoing we have supposed that testimony of a miracle may amount... | |
 | David Hume - 2006 - 629 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... | |
 | Carl Sagan - 2006 - 316 ページ
...discover, 1 pronounce my decision. Always 1 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. And another way in which this has been phrased is by Thomas Paine, one of the heroes of the American... | |
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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... 
