...objection to miracles go ; viz. " That no human testimony can in any case render them credible, because it is contrary to experience that a miracle should...contrary to experience that testimony should be false." Strictly speaking, the narrative of a fact is tlien only contrary to experience, when the fact is related...

...laboured to disprove the existence of miracle* altogether. The substance of his argument is, ' that it is contrary to experience, that a miracle should be true, but not contrary to experience, that a testimony should be false.' " In the deduction of evidence, it is an established maxim, that if an...

...examine the principle upon which it professes to be founded : which principle is concisely this, that it is contrary to experience that a miracle should...contrary to experience that testimony should be false. Now there appears a small ambiguity in the term " experience," and in the phrases " contrary to experience,"...

...examine the principle upon which it professes to be founded; which principle is concisely this, That it is contrary to experience that a miracle should...contrary to experience that testimony should be false. Now there appears a small ambiguity in the term " experience," and in the phrases *' contrary to experience,"...

...their minds, for practical use, this AJAXIJK which .they are told is the maxim of HUME ; namely, that it is contrary to experience that a miracle should be true, but not cqntrcury to experience that testimony should be false. This pernicious supposed maxim has, accordingly,...

...objected, " That no human testimony can, in any case, render miracles credible, because, say they, it is contrary to experience that a miracle should...contrary to experience that testimony should be false." Answers. (1.) The narrative of a fact is then only contrary to expctience when the fact is related...

...preponderate. Or, to state the principle on which he founds his argument in the brief clear words of Paley : " It is contrary to experience that a miracle should...contrary to experience that testimony should be false." This argument, however, though so much lauded by infidelity at one time, is a transparent fallacy,...

...render them credible, Q. What is the principle on which this objection professes to be founded ? A. That it is contrary to experience that ,a miracle should...contrary to experience that testimony should be false. Q. Mention the ambiguity of the term experience ? perience, when it is said to have taken place at...

...examine the principle upon which it professes to be founded ; which principle is concisely this, TJmt it is contrary to experience that a miracle should...contrary to experience that testimony should be false. Now there appears a small ambiguity in the term '; experience," and in the phrases 'contrary to experience,"...

...examine the principle upon which it professes to be founded ; which principle is concisely this, That it is contrary to experience that a miracle should...contrary to experience that testimony should be false. Now there appears a small ambiguity in the term "experience," and in the phrases "contrary toexrrience,"...