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Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles - Earman, John
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By situating Hume's famous work Of Miracles (which notoriously argues against the possiblity of miracles) in the context of the 18th-century debate on miracles, Earman shows that Hume's argument is largely unoriginal, and largely without merit where it is original. On the positive side, he shows how progress can be made on the issues, so provocatively posed in Hume's essay, about the ability of eyewitness testimony to establish the credibility of marvelous and miraculous events. Earman's work is simultaneously a ...

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Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles 2000, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195127386

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Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles 2000, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195127379

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