Hume's Critique of Miracles: An Irrelevant Triumph
Religious Studies 18 (3):337 - 354 (1982)
| Abstract | AS HUME SAW, THE EXTREME ABNORMALITY OF AN EVENT, E, CAN NEVER BY ITSELF JUSTIFY THE BELIEF THAT E HAS NO NATURAL EXPLANATION. HUME’S NEGATIVE CHARACTERIZATION OF SUPERNATURAL POWER, HOWEVER, OBSCURES THE WAY ABNORMALITY MAY COMBINE WITH APPARENT PURPOSEFULNESS TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THE BELIEF THAT E IS A MIRACLE. THE PERSUASIVENESS OF THIS SUPPORT WILL DEPEND NOT ONLY ON THE NATURE OF E BUT, ALSO, THE REASONABLENESS OF BELIEF IN A MIRACLE-WORKING DEITY | |||||||||
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