 | 1831 - 576 pages
...as little necessary as in * anyother.' (P. 116.) — ' It is experience only which gives autho' rity to human testimony ; and it is the same experience which ' assures us of the laws of nature. When, therefore, these two * kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but ' subtract... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1810 - 532 pages
...no testimony by which the truth of miracles could be proved ; and he says, «It is experience alone which gives authority to human testimony ; and it is the same experience that assures us of the laws of nature. When therefore these two kinds of experience are contrary, we... | |
 | Missions - 1853 - 840 pages
...nations, and in successive ages of the world. Mr. Hume, of course, ascribes it to experience — ' it is experience only which gives authority to human...experience which assures us of the laws of nature;' — but, then, how is this latter experience, in the needed extent, obtained, but by testimony t —... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 pages
...opposed by another proof, derived from the very nature of the fact which it would endeavour to establish. It is experience only" which gives authority to human...experience which assures us of the laws of nature. "When, therefore, these two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but subtract the... | |
 | David Welsh - Medicine - 1825 - 568 pages
...by another proof derived from the very nature of the fact •which it would endeavour to establish. It is experience only •which gives authority to...experience which assures us of the laws of nature. When, therefore, these two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but subtract the... | |
 | David Hume - 1825 - 526 pages
...very nature of the fact which it would endeavour to establish. It is experience only which give -. authority to human testimony ; and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature. When, therelore, these two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but subtract the... | |
 | David Hume - Natural theology - 1825 - 526 pages
...the very nature of the fact which it would endeavour to establish. It is experience only which give s authority to human testimony ; and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nat utv. When, therefore, these two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but subtract... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1826 - 626 pages
...opposed by another proof, derived from the very nature of the fact which it would endeavour to establish. It is experience only which gives authority to human...it is the same experience which assures us of the . yi \ ' ) laws of nature. When, therefore, these two kinds of * experience are contrary, we have nothing... | |
 | Charles Babbage - Natural theology - 1837 - 266 pages
...have the author's definition of a law of nature, which is given in a subsequent part of his essay. " It is experience only which gives authority to human...testimony ; and it is the same experience which assures us * Page 114. f Page 462. " of the laws of nature. When, therefore, these two kinds " of experience are... | |
 | American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...the whole force of his reasoning. Apply it to the following. "It is experience only," he tells us, " which gives authority to human testimony ; and it...experience which assures us of the laws of nature. When, therefore, these two kinds of experience are contrary, we have nothing to do but subtract the... | |
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It is experience only which gives authority to human testimony ; and it is the same experience which assures us of the laws of nature. 
