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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... strong support for the occurrence of an improbable event, the very high antecedent improbability of an event's occurring can supply strong support for asserting the nonoccurrence of that event. This sets the stage for the possi- bility ...
... strong negative pre- sumption generated 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 ...
... strong our initial grounds for dis- trusting Henry's stories, provided that his stories are consistent, our distrust remains defeasible. This will be a matter of central importance later, in the examination of various (misguided) at ...
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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 |