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" In the foregoing reasoning we have supposed, that the testimony, upon which a miracle is founded, may possibly amount to an entire proof, and that the falsehood of that testimony would be a real prodigy: But it is easy to shew, that we have been a great... "
Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles - Page 144
by John Earman - 2000 - 232 pages
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: In Two Volumes

David Hume - 1804 - 552 pages
...which he 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...concession, and that there never was a miraculous event established on so full an evidence. For, first, there is not to be found, in all history, any...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 2

David Hume - 1809 - 556 pages
...which he relates ; then, and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion-. PART ji. In the foregoing reasoning we have supposed, that...concession, and that there never was a miraculous event established on so full an evidence. For, first, there is not to be found, in all history, any...
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An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ...

David Hume - 1817 - 528 pages
...which he 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...testimony would be a real prodigy : But it is easy to shew lhat we have beefa a great deal too liberal in our concession, and that there never was a miraculous...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects ...

David Hume - 1825 - 526 pages
...which he 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...founded may possibly amount to an entire proof, and that (lie falsehood of that testimony would be a real prodigy : But it is easy to shew that we have been...
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Remarks on the legality and expediency of prosecutions for religious opinion ...

Jonathan Duncan - 1825 - 274 pages
...on miracles. " In the foregoing * Vol. 2, p. 273. reasoning, we have supposed that the testimony on which a miracle is founded, may possibly amount to...and that the falsehood of that testimony would be a kind of prodigy. But, 'tis easy to show, that we have been a great deal too liberal in our concessions,...
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The Philosophical Works of David Hume ...

David Hume - 1826 - 628 pages
...which he 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...which a miracle is founded, may possibly amount to entire proof, and that the falsehood of that testimony would be a real prodigy : But it is easy to...
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The Philosophical Works of David Hume ...: An inquiry concerning the human ...

David Hume - 1826 - 626 pages
...reasoning we have supposed, that the testimony upon which a miracle is founded, may possibly amount to entire proof, and that the falsehood of that testimony would be a real prodigy : But it is easy to show that we have been a great deal too liberal in our concession, and that there never was a miraculous...
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The New Englander, Volume 1

1843 - 644 pages
...abundant testimony of history as to the occurrence of miracles. He therefore goes on to say, (p. 124,) "In the foregoing reasoning we have supposed, that...testimony would be a real prodigy. But it is easy to show, that we have been a great deal too liberal in ourconcessions, and that there never was a miraculous...
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The Philosophical Works, Volume 4

David Hume - 1854 - 576 pages
...which he 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...which a miracle is founded, may possibly amount to entire proof, and that the falsehood of that testimony would be a real prodigy : but it is easy to...
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Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the ..., Volume 921

David Hume - 1902 - 419 pages
...which he relates ; then, and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion. PART II. 82 In the foregoing reasoning we have supposed, that...concession, and that there never was a miraculous event established on so full an evidence. For first, there is not to be found, in all history, any...
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