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Questions of Miracle by Robert A. Larmer

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By Robert A. Larmer

Questions of Miracle might be a worthy reference e-book and instructing instrument for students and scholars of theology, non secular experiences, and philosophy. Contents The common sense of possibilities in Hume's Argument opposed to Miracles - Fred Wilson (Toronto) David Hume and the amazing - Robert Larmer Miracles and the legislation of Nature - Robert Larmer opposed to Miracles - John Collier (University of Newcastle) opposed to "Against Miracles" - Robert Larmer Miracles and Conservation legislation - Neil MacGill (UNB) Miracles and Conservation legislation: A respond to Professor MacGill - Robert Larmer Miracles and standards - Robert Larmer Miracles and common reasons - David Basinger (Roberts Wesleyan university) Miracles and usual motives: A Rejoinder - Robert Larmer Miracles as proof for Theism: A Surrejoinder - David Basinger Miracles, proof, and Theism: one more Apologia - Robert Larmer Authenticating Biblical experiences of Miracles - Phillip Wiebe (Trinity Western college) Miracles and Testimony: A respond to Wiebe - Robert Larmer Miracles as facts opposed to the lifestyles of God - Christine total (Queen's) Miracles and the lifestyles of God: A answer - Robert Larmer.

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This is true in general" (T 145). 15 In the unpublished essay "Of the Authenticity of Ossian's Poems," in David Hume, The Philosophical Works, ed. H. H. Grose, 4 vols. (Oxford, 1882), 4:415-24, Hume writes, "they were composed, you say, in the Highlands, about fifteen centuries ago; and have been faithfully transmitted, ever since, by oral tradition, through ages totally ignorant of letters, by the rudest, perhaps of all the European nations; the most necessitous, the most turbulent, the most ferocious, and the most unsettled.

I weigh the one miracle against the other; and according to the superiority, which I discover, I pronounce my decision, and always reject the greater miracle. If the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous, than the event which he relates; then, and not till then, can he pretend to command my belief or opinion" (E 116). But of course, the evaluation of witnesses is not merely a matter of the abstract calculation of probabilities. Truth-saying and false-saying are the contrary effects of several different causal factors, including, naturally, reason.

Rather, we infer that there is a hitherto unknown factor, call it D*, such that an A is B just in case it is D* and is C just in case it is not D*. 27 The vulgar, of course, often do explain by appeal to chance the 8 Fred Wilson observed contrariety of effects: to use Hume's example, that my watch sometimes does not work properly is due to chance. But to the artisan such an explanation will not do: the artisan knows better. 28 Science, or what is the same for Hume, philosophy, has systematically extended the watchmaker's experience to many other cases and has been systematically successful in discovering causes for contrary effects.

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