 | Thomas Sherlock - 1830 - 392 pages
...evidence of Christ's resurrection. The gentleman allows it to be reasonable in many cases to act on the testimony and credit of others ; but he thinks...admitted, but in such matters as appear probable, or at least possible to our conceptions. For instance : a man who lives in a warm climate, and never... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - Theology - 1830 - 396 pages
...evidence of Christ's resurrection. The gentleman allows it to be reasonable in many cases to act on the testimony and credit of others ; but he thinks...admitted, but in such matters as appear probable, or at least possible to our conceptions. For instance : a man who lives in a warm climate, and never... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1843 - 240 pages
...evidence of Christ's resurrection. The gentleman allows it to be reasonable, in many cases, to act on the testimony and credit of others ; but he thinks...admitted, but in such matters as appear probable, or at least possible, to our conceptions. For instance : a man who lives in a warm climate, and never... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...thing testified is probable, possible, and according to the usual course of nature. The VOL. ill X gentleman does not, I suppose, pretend to know the...admitted, but in such matters as appear probable, or at least possible to our conceptions. For instance : a man who lives in a warm climate, and never... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Literary Collections - 1894 - 674 pages
...thing testified is probable, possible, and according to the usual course of nature. The VOL. Ill X gentleman does not, I suppose, pretend to know the...admitted, but in such matters as appear probable, or at least possible to our conceptions. For instance : a man who lives in a warm climate, and never... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...thing testified is probable, possible, and according to the usual course of nature. The VOL. ill X gentleman does not, I suppose, pretend to know the...admitted, but in such matters as appear probable, or at least possible to our conceptions. For instance : a man who lives in a warm climate, and never... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 pages
...thing testified is probable, possible, and according to the usual course of nature. The VOL. Ill X gentleman does not, I suppose, pretend to know the...admitted, but in such matters as appear probable, or at least possible to our conceptions. For instance : a man who lives in a warm climate, and never... | |
 | John Earman - Philosophy - 2000 - 232 pages
...generally known; and therefore his Meaning must be, that the Testimony of Witnesses is to be receiv'd only in Cases which appear to us to be possible; in...Impossibilities, which can never exist, can never be prov'd; taking the Observation therefore in this Sense, the Proposition is this; that the Testimony... | |
 | John Earman - Electronic books - 2000 - 236 pages
...his Meaning must be. that the Testimony of Witnesses is to be receiv'd only in Cases which appear Io us to be possible: in any other Sense we can have...Impossibilities. which can never exist. can never be prov'd: taking the Observation therefore in this Sense. the Proposition is this: that the Testimony... | |
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The gentleman does not, I suppose, pretend to know the extent of all natural possibilities, much less will he suppose them to be generally known ; and therefore his meaning must be, that the testimony of witnesses is to be received only in cases which... 