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?

Evidence-backed 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

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Hume on Religion
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §3 Miracles
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The Dialogues tests how little the analogy from worldly order to a designer can establish about the nature and number of its cause.

Open evidence

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Hume on Religion
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §4 The Design Argument
Open source