Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against MiraclesOxford University Press, 23.11.2000 - 232 Seiten This vital study offers a new interpretation of Hume's famous "Of Miracles," which notoriously argues against the possibility of miracles. By situating Hume's popular argument in the context of the eighteenth-century debate on miracles, Earman shows Hume's argument to be largely unoriginal and chiefly without merit where it is original. Yet Earman constructively conceives how progress can be made on the issues that Hume's essay so provocatively posed about the ability of eyewitness testimony to establish the credibility of marvelous and miraculous events. |
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... doubt be enraged by this charge. Good! There has been much too much genuflecting at Hume's altar. If the only purpose of the present work were to bash ''Of Miracles,'' it would not be worth the candle. But in fact, Hume's essay does ...
... doubt be enraged by this charge. Good! There has been much too much genuflecting at Hume's altar. If the only purpose of the present work were to bash ''Of Miracles,'' it would not be worth the candle. But in fact, Hume's essay does ...
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... doubt about how the mature Hume resolved it. If we take Philo's pronouncements in Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1776) as a guide, the mature Hume was a theist, albeit of a vague and weak-kneed sort. He seems to have been ...
... doubt about how the mature Hume resolved it. If we take Philo's pronouncements in Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1776) as a guide, the mature Hume was a theist, albeit of a vague and weak-kneed sort. He seems to have been ...
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... doubt, wavering, distrust, disbelief, &c. (ECHU 377; 103) Locke's waffling was unavoidable, for without the help of the probability calculus, which was being developed when Locke wrote his Essay but of which he was largely innocent, it ...
... doubt, wavering, distrust, disbelief, &c. (ECHU 377; 103) Locke's waffling was unavoidable, for without the help of the probability calculus, which was being developed when Locke wrote his Essay but of which he was largely innocent, it ...
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... doubt the veracity of my eye sight, or of the object. Therefore, I cannot admit the like fact on the evidence of others: Because pretended facts, which are contrary to nature, can have no natural evidence'' (RJC 74; 135). But, of course ...
... doubt the veracity of my eye sight, or of the object. Therefore, I cannot admit the like fact on the evidence of others: Because pretended facts, which are contrary to nature, can have no natural evidence'' (RJC 74; 135). But, of course ...
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... doubt, as is the case with all probabilities'' (L, Vol. 1, 350). In these passages Hume is saying that when experience is uniform— when sufficiently many As have been examined and all have been found to be Bs—then we have a ''proof ...
... doubt, as is the case with all probabilities'' (L, Vol. 1, 350). In these passages Hume is saying that when experience is uniform— when sufficiently many As have been examined and all have been found to be Bs—then we have a ''proof ...
Inhalt
Appendix on Probability | 75 |
Notes | 77 |
Works Cited | 87 |
Additional Bibliography | 93 |
THE DOCUMENTS | 95 |
Index | 213 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 119 - And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?
Seite 190 - A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature ; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Seite 203 - That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish...
Seite 56 - Thus, suppose, all authors, in all languages agree that from the first of January 1600 there was a total darkness over the whole earth for eight days: Suppose that the tradition of this extraordinary event is still strong and lively among the people: That all travellers, who return from foreign countries, bring us accounts of the same tradition, without the least variation or contradiction. It is evident that our present philosophers, instead of doubting the fact, ought to receive it as certain,...
Seite 119 - And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.
Seite 119 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Seite 177 - ... as has seldom fallen under our observation, here is a contest of two opposite 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...
Seite 144 - In the foregoing reasoning we have supposed, that the testimony, upon which a miracle is founded, may possibly amount to an entire proof, and that the falsehood of that testimony would be a real prodigy: But it is easy to shew, that we have been a great deal too liberal in our concession, and that there never was a miraculous event established on so full an evidence.
Seite 146 - People at a distance, who are weak enough to think the matter at all worth enquiry, have no opportunity of receiving better information. The stories come magnified to them by a hundred circumstances. Fools are industrious in propagating the imposture; while the wise and learned are contented, in general, to deride its absurdity, without informing themselves of the particular facts, by which it may be distinctly refuted. And thus the impostor...