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A summary of Section X in David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
30 sty 2011 · So far, no miracle has even close to enough people testifying for it, much less trustworthy people. You say a hundred people witnessed the miracle? Funny how that miracle would entirely confirm the religious beliefs of all hundred of them - what a strange coincidence!
Overview. Put simply, Hume defines a miracle as a violation of a law of nature (understood as a regularity of past experience projected by the mind to future cases) [1] and argues that the evidence for a miracle is never sufficient for rational belief because it is more likely that a report of a miracle is false as a result of misperception, ...
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a book by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in English in 1748 under the title Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding until a 1757 edition came up with the now-familiar name.
8 sie 2021 · Hume defines a miracles as “a violation of the laws of nature” (p.124) and argues that there must “be a uniform experience against every miraculous event, otherwise the event would not merit that appellation” (p.125).
14 cze 2007 · Philosophers continue to debate about David Hume's case against the rationality of belief in miracles. This article clarifies semantic, epistemological, and metaphysical questions addressed in the controversy. It also explains the main premises of Hume's argument and discusses criticisms of them.
David Hume, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) 579 26. Sometimes an event may not, in itself, seem to be contrary to the laws of nature, and yet, if it were real, it might by reason of some circumstances be denominated a miracle, because, in fact, it is contrary to these laws. Thus, if a person claiming
