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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... things that happen indifferently, as that a bird should fly this or that way; that it should thunder on a man's right or left hand, &c. when any particular matter of fact is vouched by the. THE STRUCTURE OF HUME'S ARGUMENT 7.
... 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. (Ibid., sec. 9)4 What I have called ...
... thing.” The dynamics of this conflict of proof against proof under- lies the argumentative structure of Hume's treatment of mira- cles. Roughly, in part 1 Hume grants, for the sake of argument, that a circumstance could arise where ...
... things happened is sufficient for discounting his testi- mony, whatever his reasons for presenting it. There is, it is important to acknowledge, the remote possibility that Henry has told these stories because they happened just as he ...
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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 |