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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... 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 certainty from their supposed causes. Some events are found, in all ...
... fact, which the testimony endeavours to establish, partakes of the extraordinary and the marvellous; in that case, the evidence, resulting from the testimony, admits of a diminution, greater or less, in proportion as the fact is more or ...
... fact, which they endeavour to establish; from which contradiction there necessarily arises a counterpoise, and mutual destruction of belief and authority. I should not believe such a story were it told me by CATO; was a proverbial ...
Robert J. Fogelin. when any particular matter of fact is vouched by the concurrent testimony of unsuspected witnesses, there our assent is . . . un- avoidable” (Locke 1979, bk. 4, chap. 16, sec. 8). Locke then adds this cautionary note ...
... against it by the reverse test. We can next consider an example of a different kind, one that will be useful later on. Though exaggerated, it has some basis in fact. Henry—as we will call him—is full of stories about. 10 CHAPTER ONE.
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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 |