A Defense of Hume on MiraclesPrinceton University Press, 25 Μαρ 2010 - 128 σελίδες Since its publication in the mid-eighteenth century, Hume's discussion of miracles has been the target of severe and often ill-tempered attacks. In this book, one of our leading historians of philosophy offers a systematic response to these attacks. |
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... experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into er- rors. . . . All effects follow not with like ...
... experience, he expects the event with the last degree of assurance, and regards his past experience as a full proof of the future existence of that event. In other cases, he proceeds with more caution: He weighs the opposite experiments ...
... a conformity between them. But when the fact attested is such a one as has seldom fallen under our. conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses. (EHU, 10.5) arguments from experience as leave no room for doubt or. 6 CHAPTER ONE.
... experiences; of which the one destroys the other, as far as its force goes, and the superior can only operate on the mind by the force, which remains. The very same principle of experience, which gives us a certain degree of assurance ...
... experience, and the reports of history and witnesses clash with the ordi- nary course of nature, or with one another; there it is, where diligence, attention, and exactness are required, to form a right judgment, and to proportion the ...
Περιεχόμενα
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CHAPTER 2 Two Recent Critics | 32 |
CHAPTER 3 The Place of Of Miracles in Humes Philosophy | 54 |
APPENDIX 1 Humes Curious Relationship to Tillotson | 63 |
APPENDIX 2 Of Miracles | 68 |
Notes | 89 |
References | 95 |
Index | 97 |