...experience can possibly be imagined . . . And as a uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and full proof, from the nature of the fact, against the existence of any miracle . . . [Enquiries, pp. 114-115]. I begin Part II by asking "what is involved in knowing that a miracle...

...event would not merit the appellation. And as a uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and full proof, from the nature of the fact,...rendered credible, but by an opposite proof, which is superior.12 Hume's point here is that we have grounds for believing that any particular event is a...

...event would not merit that appellation. And as a uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and full proof, from the nature of the fact, against the existence of any miracle; nor of which is always uncertain. One may sometimes conjecture from analogy what will follow; but still...

...experience can possibly be imagined. (E 1 14, emphasis added, from Passage I) Therefore: 3. There is ... a direct and full proof , from the nature of the fact, against . . . [the possibility that the] miracle [can be] rendered credible. (E1 15) wholly implausible to attribute one...

...would not merit that appellation. And as an uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and full proof, from the nature of the fact,...rendered credible, but by an opposite proof, which is superior.43 The plain consequence is (and it is a general maxim worthy of our attention), "That no...

...event would not merit that appellation. And as a uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and full proof, from the nature of the fact, against the existence of any miracle" (EHU 10.1, 115). The above argument has provoked many questions. Among them the following have been...

...event would not merit the appellation. And as a uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and full proof, from the nature of the fact,...rendered credible, but by an opposite proof, which is superior.12 As we've already learned, Hume could not be saying that violations of the laws of nature...

...apellation. And as a uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and full prnnf, from the nature of the fact against the existence...rendered credible but by an opposite proof which is superior.60 The only available type of proof that could counter the intrinsic probability of experience...

...miraculous" or a "greater miracle" than another? Near the end of Part i, he writes: [T]here is here a direct and full proof, from the nature of the fact,...credible, but by an opposite proof, which is superior. (EHU §90) Yet he has already defined 'proofs' as "such arguments from experience as leave no room...

...by "a uniform experience" thus far. And as a uniform experience amounts to a proof, there is here a direct and full proof, from the nature of the fact, against the existence of any miracle. On this view, it is unreasonable to believe in miracle stories, because their supporting evidence,...