Story 1How far can reason speak about faith?
Hume — Weighing miracle testimony and arguments from design
The question that opens it
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?
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Enquiry X asks us to weigh evidence that testimony is false against evidence, grounded in experience, that a law of nature has been violated.
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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.
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Hume on Religion
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §4 The Design Argument
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