 | David Hume, Richard H. Popkin - 1998 - 158 páginas
...that the voice or command of a man should have such an influence. A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interftosition of some invisible agent. A miracle may either be discoverable by men... | |
 | Ronald Wells - 1998 - 264 páginas
...miracles as involving exceptions to laws of nature goes back at least to Hume, who defined a miracle as a "transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent." See Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding... | |
 | William Charlton - 1998 - 198 páginas
...Miss Witherington: Why this passion for the miraculous? What do you mean by a 'miracle'? Mr Dodson: 'A transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity.'5 Miss Witherington: What does that mean? Mr Dodson: Something that happens contrary to the... | |
 | David Johnson - 1999 - 140 páginas
...definitions: A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; ' A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent. 2 For now, let us set aside the question of... | |
 | Victor Shea, William Whitla - 2000 - 1092 páginas
...112). It was published in Philosophical Essays concerning Human Undemanding (1748). To Hume a miracle is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent" (Hume [1748] 1964, 93). 11. Div. Leg. ix. 5... | |
 | John Earman - 2000 - 230 páginas
...definition, which he indicates is more accurate than the first: 'A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent" (E fn 115; 154). This second definition is... | |
 | Michael Palmer - 2001 - 388 páginas
...that the voice or command of a man should have such an influence. A mitacle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent. A mitacle may either be discoverable by men... | |
 | Stuart C. Brown - 2001 - 214 páginas
...that the voice or command of a man should have such an influence. A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or. by the interposition of some invisible agent. A miracle may either be discoverable by men... | |
 | Olav Hammer - 2001 - 584 páginas
...Miracles") of Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), a miracle "may accurately be defined as a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent". Hume then provides a famous rebuttal of miracles.... | |
 | Miguel A. Badía Cabrera - 2001 - 358 páginas
...specifically supernatural causation) is emphasized by Hume in his more accurate defmition of a miracie as a "transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent (EHU, 115). 22 The last clause takes note of... | |
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