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Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles - Page 146
by John Earman - 2000 - 232 pages
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects: In Two Volumes

David Hume - 1804 - 552 pages
...grossest delusion. People at a distance, who are weak enough to think the matter at all worthy inquiry, have no opportunity of receiving better information....by which it may be distinctly refuted. And thus the impostor1 $bove mentioned was enabled to proceed, from his ignorant PAPHLAGONIANS, to the enlisting...
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, Volume 2

David Hume - 1809 - 556 pages
...grossest delusion. People at a distance, who are weak enough to think the matter at all worthy inquiry, have no opportunity of receiving better information....it may be distinctly refuted. And thus the impostor above mentioned was enabled to proceeed, from his ignorant Paphlagonians, to the enlisting of votaries,...
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An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ...

David Hume - 1817 - 528 pages
...grossest delusion. People at a distance, who are weak enough to think the matter at all worthy inquiry, have no opportunity of receiving better information....it may be distinctly refuted. And thus the impostor above mentioned was enabled to proceed, from his ignorant Paphlagonians, to the enlisting of votaries,...
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Essays and treatises on several subjects, Volume 2

David Hume - 1817 - 540 pages
...grossest delusion. People at a distance, who are weak enough to think the matter at all worthy inquiry, have no opportunity of receiving better information....come magnified to them by a hundred circumstances. Fouls are industrious in propagating the imposture; while the wise and learned are contented, in general,...
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An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ...

David Hume - 1825 - 546 pages
...delusion. Peo» pie at a distance, who are weak enough to think the matter at 'all worthy inquiry, have no opportunity of receiving better information....Contented, in general, to deride its absurdity, without in. forming themselves of the particular facts by which it may be distinctly refilled. And thus the...
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The Philosophical Works of David Hume ...

David Hume - 1826 - 628 pages
...grossest delusion. People at a distance, who are weak enough to think the matter at all worthy inquiry, have no opportunity of receiving better information....it may be distinctly refuted. And thus the impostor above mentioned was enabled to proceed, from his ignorant Paphlagonians, to the enlisting of votaries,...
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The Philosophical Works of David Hume ...: An inquiry concerning the human ...

David Hume - 1826 - 626 pages
...grossest delusion. People at a distance, who are weak enough to think the matter at all worthy inquiry, have no opportunity of receiving better information....by which it may be distinctly refuted. And thus the impostqr above mentioned was enabled to proceed, from his ignorant Paphlagonians, to the enlisting...
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The Philosophical Works, Volume 4

David Hume - 1854 - 576 pages
...grossest delusion. People at a distance, who are weak enough to think the matter at all worthy inquiry, have no opportunity of receiving better information....it may be distinctly refuted. And thus the impostor above mentioned was enabled to proceed, from his ignorant Paphlagoiiians, to the enlisting of votaries,...
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Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding and Concerning the ..., Volume 921

David Hume - 1902 - 419 pages
...though now forgotten, was once so famous, to lay the first scene of his impostures in Paphlagonia, where, as Lucian tells us, the people were extremely...it may be distinctly refuted. And thus the impostor above mentioned was enabled to proceed, from his ignorant Paphlagonians, to the enlisting of votaries,...
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and Selections from A Treatise of ...

David Hume - 1907 - 324 pages
...though now forgotten, was once so famous, to lay the first scene of his impostures in Paphlagonia, where, as Lucian tells us, the people were extremely...it may be distinctly refuted. And thus the impostor above mentioned was enabled to proceed, from his ignorant Paphlagonians, to the enlisting of votaries,...
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