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Perspective voyage · 1748–1779

Hume — Weighing miracle testimony and arguments from design

How strong must testimony be when weighed against the chance that the report is mistaken and the chance that a regularity of nature has failed?

The question that moves this idea

How far can reason speak about faith?

Instead of memorizing a conclusion, follow the evidence scenes to see what this perspective distinguishes and where its explanation stops.

Scene 1 / 2Evidence-linked account

Enquiry X asks us to weigh evidence that testimony is false against evidence, grounded in experience, that a law of nature has been violated.

Open evidence for this scene

This sentence is an editorial paraphrase linked to the listed sources, not a direct quotation.

  • Hume on Religion

    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    Locator: §3 Miracles

    Open source

Time × place

Where the idea met time and place

We do not invent a birthplace for an idea. Only evidence-backed events such as writing, publication, teaching, and reception appear here.

1779 CE · 1779

The posthumous Dialogues tests design arguments through several competing voices.

Keep the voyage moving

Where should this perspective lead?

Enter the judgment scene

Compare this perspective with three others on the same cases.

Enter the judgment scene

Open the person’s full voyage

Restore the period, works, and places behind the single claim.

Open the person’s full voyage

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See what the same thinker distinguishes differently in another question.

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