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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... judgment, the evidence exceeds not what we properly call probability. All probability, then, supposes an opposition of experiments and ob- servations; where the one side is found to overbalance the other, and to produce a degree of ...
... judgment, and to proportion the assent to the different evidence and probability of the thing; which rises and falls, according as those two foundations of credibility, viz. common observation in like cases, and particular testimonies ...
... judgment, and to propor- tion the assent to the different evidence and probability of the thing.” The dynamics of this conflict of proof against proof under- lies the argumentative structure of Hume's treatment of mira- cles. Roughly ...
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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 |