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Hume's Argument For The Existence Of Belief In Miracles

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Hume’s argument claims that belief should not established in miracles. His statements are on the facts that he does not comply with having any beliefs for happening of the miracles. According to him, the fact that miracles should be focused on for the purpose of establishing any belief in them should not be entertained with any respect. “In Enquiry §X, Hume uses his views about our knowledge of matters of fact to reject belief in miracles.” (Lacewing, 2016) He states in his arguments that miracles should not considered up to such an extent that one should start establishing any kind of beliefs or starts relating values with them .Hume further proceeds with claiming that since miracles happen without any …show more content…

Since belief is a value that has its own value thus is occurrence should also be valid and related to some significant material or reason. Hume explains the occurrence of the miracles with three concepts which are miracle could be an event or an occurrence which has some religions significance, the miracle could be an event which has occurred through God and the miracle could be an event which has occurred while violating the laws of nature of against the laws of God. “David Hume (Hume 1748/2000; cf. Voltaire 1764/1901: 272) famously defined a miracle as “a violation of the laws of nature,” and this definition has been the focus of lively discussion ever since. Hume evidently means to denote something beyond mere changes in the regular course of nature, raising the bar higher for something to qualify as a miracle but also raising the potential epistemic significance of such an event if it could be authenticated.” (Philosophy, 2014) These three concepts are very much clear about what Hume considers about miracles and their happenings. However if we consider each one case with detail, it could be said that the occurrence of the miracle is more likely dependent upon

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