 | David Hume - 1804 - 552 pagina’s
...case, another degree of j I 4 ' ' assurance against the fact, which they endeavour to esta» blislt ; from which contradiction there necessarily arises...counterpoise, and mutual destruction of belief and authority. / should not believe such a story were it told me by CATO ; was a proverbial saying in ROME, even during... | |
 | 1804 - 994 pagina’s
...us a certain degree of assurance in the testimony of^ witnesses, gives us, in the case of miracles, another degree of assurance against the fact which they endeavour to establish. A miracle,' he says, • is a \ iolalion of the laws of nature ; and, as a firm and unalterable experience... | |
 | George Campbell - 1807 - 530 pagina’s
...force * which remains. The very same principle of experience, * which gives us a certain degree of assurance in the testimony * of witnesses, gives us also, in this case, another degree of c assurance, against the fact which they endeavour to establish ; * from which contradiction, there... | |
 | George Campbell - 1807 - 294 pagina’s
...experience, which gives me a certain de" gree of assurance in the' testimony of the " witness, gives me also, in this case, another " degree of assurance, against the fact, which " he endeavours to establish, from which con" tradiction there arises a counterpoise, and " mutual... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 pagina’s
...gives us a certain degree of assurance in the testimony of witnesses, gives us also, in Una VOL. II. I case, another degree of assurance against the fact which they endeavour to establish 5 from which contradiction there necessarily arises a counterpoise, and mutual destruction of belief... | |
 | George Campbell - 1823 - 590 pagina’s
...experience, which gives ' me a certain degree of assurance in the testimony ' of the witness, gives me also, in this case, another ' degree of assurance, against the fact, which he ' endeavours to establish, from which contradiction ' there arises a counterpoise, and mutual destruc'... | |
 | George Campbell - 1824 - 396 pagina’s
...force which re' mains. The very same principle of experience, which gives ' us a certain degree of assurance, in the testimony of witnesses, ' gives...fact which they endeavour to establish ; from which con' tradiction, there necessarily arises a counterpoise, and mutual * destruction of belief and authority... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 526 pagina’s
...the force which remains. The very same principle of experience, which gives us a certain degree of assurance in the testimony of witnesses, gives us...counterpoise, and mutual destruction of belief and authority. / should not believe such a story were it told me by CATO, was a proverbial saying in Rome, even during... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - 1825 - 256 pagina’s
...ever so often. " The very same principle of experience," says he, " which gives us a certain degree of assurance in the testimony of witnesses, gives us...endeavour to establish, from which contradiction there arises necessarily a counterpoise, and mutual destruction of belief and authority." The very same counterpoise... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 526 pagina’s
...gives us a certain degree of assurance in the testimony of witnesses, gives us also, in this VOL. II. I case, another degree of assurance against the fact...counterpoise, and mutual destruction of belief and authority. / should not believe such a story were it told me by CATO, was a proverbial saying in Rome, even during... | |
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... has seldom fallen under our observation, here is a contest of two opposite experiences, of which the one destroys the other as far as its force goes ; and the superior can only operate on the mind by the force which remains. The very same principle... 
