 | Stephen Buckle - 2007 - 223 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. Sometimes an event may not, in itself, seem to be contrary to the laws of nature, and yet, if it were... | |
 | Nikki Stafford - 2010 - 227 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." In other words, what is more probable: that a man rose from the dead, or that the person reporting... | |
 | Normand Baillargeon - 2011 - 338 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.16 This argument can and must be generalized because it has a range of applicability that is... | |
 | John Martin Creed, J. S. Boys Smith - 1934 - 352 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. * * * * Upon the whole, then, it appears, that no testimony for any kind of miracle has ever amounted1... | |
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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... 
