A Defense of Hume on MiraclesPrinceton University Press, 25.03.2010 - 128 Seiten 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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... evidence” (EHU, 10.4). Then, summarizing an earlier discussion of the probability of causes in section 6, Hume tells us, in broad strokes, how this. The Structure of Hume's Argument to the lowest species of moral evidence. (EHU, 10.3) ...
... 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 evidence ...
... evidence, resulting from the testimony, admits of a diminution, greater or less, in proportion as the fact is more or less unusual. The reason, why we place any credit in witnesses and historians, is not derived from any connexion ...
... evidence, resulting from the testimony, admits of a diminution, greater or less, in proportion as the fact is more or less unusual.” Here the improbability of the event's occurring gives us some (though perhaps not decisive) grounds for ...
... 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 in that particular instance, favour or contradict it ...
Inhalt
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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 |