What Hume Actually Said about Miracles
Hume Studies 16 (1):81-86 (1990)
| Abstract | Contrary to the standard interpretations, this essay shows that Hume, in Section X of the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, explicitly put forward an a priori argument intended to show that, by the nature of the case, there must always be adequate empirical evidence establishing that a reported miracle could not have taken place | |||||||||
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