What Would It Mean for an Event to Be a ‘Miracle’ in the Sense that Hume Describes It?

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School essay

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5 pages

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01/04/2008

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Table of Contents What Would It Mean for an Event to Be a ‘Miracle’ in the Sense that Hume Describes It? Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. The idea criticised by Robert Hambourger.
  3. applying considerations to miracles and their credibility
  4. Hume's argument against the rationality of believing in miracles
  5. A look at Coleman's lottery example
  6. What Hambourger says could have occurred
  7. Conclusion
  8. Bibliography

Abstract

In this essay, I hope to show that some of the criticisms levelled against hume, especially those by Robert Hambourger (1980), are not effective in their attempts to erode hume's argument. These issues were discussed in an article by Dorothy Coleman (1988), which I will use to outline the problems with Hambourger's arguments.
Firstly, I will give an interpretation of hume's definition of a miracle, as discussed in his Enquiries Concerning Human the Understanding (Selby-Bigge ed, 1975).

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