 | 1917 - 482 pages
...as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.' Again : ' It is a transgression of a law of Nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposal of some invisible agent. It is experience only which gives authority to human... | |
 | John Henry Paul Reumann - 1968 - 568 pages
...398-99, 408, 427, 450-53, 473-74. 3. David Hume's famous definition of a miracle was "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent" (An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding [Oxford:... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1995 - 596 pages
...footnote to this page, Hume is even more explicit: "A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by Ihe interposition of some invisible agent." no more than to make miracles appear implausible.... | |
 | Wayne Proudfoot - 1987 - 284 pages
...helpful to return briefly to that example. Hume (1975: 115n) defines a miracle as "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent." Attention to the phrase "violation of the laws of... | |
 | Sidney Greidanus - 1988 - 396 pages
...49. Note Hume's definition of a miracle: "A miracle may be accurately defined [as] a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent." And again: "A miracle is a violation of the laws... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...John Lafarge (b. 1880) of the cures of Lourdes A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent. David Hume (1711-1776) Scottish philosopher, historian... | |
 | Michael Levine - 1989 - 234 pages
...justify belief in testimony to the miraculous. Given Hume's definition of a miracle as "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent," (Enquiries, p. 115n) we are justified a priori in... | |
 | G. Peter Fleck - 1989 - 228 pages
...David Hume, who, around the middle of the eighteenth century, defined a miracle as "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity or by the interposition of some invisible agent."2 These definitions, like the one in the Columbia... | |
 | Patrick Grim - 1990 - 408 pages
......." (A footnote adds a supplementary clause: "A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent.") 24 Waiving on this occasion the scholarly question... | |
 | Colin Brown, Steve Wilkens, Alan G. Padgett - 1990 - 456 pages
...put forth a second definition when he wrote: "A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent.'"15 This second definition still has the possible... | |
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A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent. 
