 | George Hayward Joyce - 1914 - 156 páginas
...distinction is not borne in mind. For instance, Hume's well-known definition of a miracle speaks of it as "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity." The phrase "transgression of a law" suggests that when a miracle occurs there is opposition... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1915 - 374 páginas
...is incredible."1 Hume had previously defined a miracle as "a violation of the laws of nature"2 or as "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent."8 Nor is this definition confined to those... | |
 | Richard Wilde Micou - 1916 - 518 páginas
...testimony is fallible and nature's order is not His definition, " A miracle may be accurately described as a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity or by the interposition of some higher agency," emphasizes solely the marvel element. Ignoring... | |
 | 1917 - 482 páginas
...nature of the fact, 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... | |
 | John Henry Paul Reumann - 1968 - 568 páginas
...Scribner's, 1913), pp. 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... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1995 - 596 páginas
...Ibid., 93. In a 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 páginas
...miracle, and it might be 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... | |
 | Sidney Greidanus - 1988 - 396 páginas
...Historical Israel, 108. 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... | |
 | Michael Levine - 1989 - 234 páginas
...impossible to 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... | |
 | G. Peter Fleck - 1989 - 228 páginas
...Scottish philosopher 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... | |
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