 | Henry Rogers - Fiction - 1852 - 468 pages
...Mill says, that to make any alleged fact contradictory to a law of causation, ' the allegation must be that this happened in the absence of any adequate...miracle, the assertion is the exact opposite of this.' He says, ' that all which Hume has made out is that no evidence can prove a miracle to any one who... | |
 | Henry Rogers - Faith - 1854 - 476 pages
...says, that, to make any alleged fact contradictory to a law of causation, ' the allegation must be that this happened in the absence of any adequate...miracle, the assertion is the exact opposite of this.' He says, ' that all which Hume has made out is, that no evidence can prove a miracle to any one who... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Evidence - 1856 - 560 pages
...in admitting the supposed law. But in order that any alleged fact should be contradictory to a law of causation, the allegation must be, not simply that the cause existed without being followed by the eflect, for that would be no uncommon occurrence ; but that this happened in the absence of any adequate... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1858 - 664 pages
...operation of gravity? "In order," says Mill,* " that any alledged fact should be contradictory to a law of causation, the allegation must be, not simply that...adequate counteracting cause. Now in the case of an alledged miracle, the assertion is the exact opposite of this. It is, that the effect was defeated,... | |
 | James Buchanan - Essays - 1861 - 278 pages
...for that would be no uncommon occurrence, ' but that this happened in the absence of any ade' quate counteracting cause. Now, in the case of an ' alleged...absence, but in consequence, of a counteracting ' cause, viz., a direct interposition of an act of the ' will of some being who has power over nature ; ' and... | |
 | James Buchanan - 1861 - 286 pages
...philosophy of induction. ' In order that any alleged fact,' says Mr Mill, ' should be contradictory to a law of ' causation, the allegation must be, not simply...occurrence, ' but that this happened in the absence of any ade' quate counteracting cause. Now, in the case of an ' alleged miracle, the assertion is the exact... | |
 | James Buchanan - Essays - 1861 - 346 pages
...induction. • In order that any alleged fact,' '! 'i I says Mr Mill, ' should be contradictory to a law of ' causation, the allegation must be, not simply...occurrence, ' but that this happened in the absence of any ade' quate counteracting cause. Now, in the case of an ' alleged miracle, the assertion is the exact... | |
 | 1861 - 838 pages
...decisive language of Stuart Mill : — " In order that any alleged fact should be contradictory to a law of causation, the allegation must be, not simply that the cause existed without being followed by the efiect, for that would bo no uncommon occurrence ; but that this happened in the absence of any adequate... | |
 | Spiritualism - 1862 - 1156 pages
...(vol. ii, p. 158) he points out that " in order that any alleged fact shoula be contradictory to a law of causation, the allegation must be, not simply that...happened in the absence of any adequate counteracting cattse." We attach great importance to the words we have italicised, in their bearing on the facts... | |
 | John Brown Paton - 1864 - 198 pages
...decisive language of Stuart Mill : — " In order that any alleged fact should be contradictory to a law of causation, the allegation must be, not simply that...miracle, the assertion is the exact opposite of this." * (D) The assumption that each physical event must be referable to physical causes. "The foundation... | |
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In order that any alleged fact should be contradictory to a law of causation, the allegation must be, not simply that the cause existed without being followed by the effect, for that would be no uncommon occurrence; but that this happened in the absence... 
