 | 1814 - 606 pages
...saw an hundred dice thrown in the air, and that they all fell on the same faces. If we had ourselves been spectators of such an event, we would not believe...admit it, notwithstanding its great improbability ; and no one would have recourse to an inversion of the laws of vision in order to account for it.... | |
 | John Playfair - Science - 1822 - 552 pages
...saw an hundred dice thrown in the air, and that they all fell on the same faces. If we had ourselves been spectators of such an event, we would not believe...admit it, notwithstanding its great improbability ; and no one would have recourse to an inversion of the laws of vision in order to account for it.... | |
 | John Playfait - 1822 - 550 pages
...saw an hundred dice thrown in the air, and that they all fell on the same faces. If we had ourselves been spectators of such an event, we would not believe...admit it, notwithstanding its great improbability ; and uo one would have recourse to an inversion of the laws of vision in order to account for it.... | |
 | 1827 - 600 pages
...he had seen an hundred dice thrown into the air, and all fall on the same faces. If we ourselves had been spectators of such an event, we would not believe...that there was no trick nor deception. After such examination, we would not hesitate to admit it, notwithstanding its great improbability; and no one... | |
 | George Gleig (bp. of Brechin.) - 1827 - 1124 pages
...improbability of a hundred dice thrown at once all falling on the same faces, adds — M If we had ounelves been spectators of such an event, we would not believe our own ryes, till we had scrupulously examined all the circumstance:, and assured ourselves that there was... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - Theology - 1839 - 622 pages
...that he had seen an hundred dice thrown into the air, and fall on the same faces. If we ourselves had been spectators of such an event, we would not believe...that there was no trick nor deception. After such examination, we would not hesitate to admit it, notwithstanding its great improbability; and no one... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 426 pages
...being imposed upon. Our reply is the same to both. Testimony may have misled you — but did ever suck testimony ? Perception too may have deluded you, but...Place's " Essai Philosophique sur les Probabilites," p. IS. Paris, 1814. "We should not give credit to the testimony of a man who affirmed that he had seen... | |
 | John Leland - Apologetics - 1837 - 784 pages
...he had seen an hundred dice thrown into the air, and all fall on the same faces. If we ourselves had been spectators of such an event, we would not believe...that there was no trick nor deception. After such examination, we- would not hesitate to admit it, notwithstanding its great improbability; and no one... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - Theology - 1839 - 622 pages
...hundred dice thrown into the air, and fall on the same faces. If we ourselves had been spectators af such an event, we would not believe our own eyes,...that there was no trick nor deception. After such examination, we would not hesitate to admit it, notwithstanding its great improbability; and no one... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Apologetics - 1848 - 418 pages
...saw it, as that we should not believe a miracle however it may be reported to us. It might be said in the one case as in the other, that we have had no...great improbability."* Yet La * The following is the translntion of a passage from La Place's " Essai Philosophique sur les Probabilites," p. 15. Paris,... | |
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La Place in his treatise on the doctrine of probabilities admits this power of the senses to ascertain the truth even of events the most violently improbable. He puts the case of a hundred dice being thrown into the air, and of their all falling on the... 
