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Full Idea
Everything, even miracles, belongs to order.
Gist of Idea
Everything, even miracles, belongs to order
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (Letters to Antoine Arnauld [1686], 1686.07.4/14 X)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'The Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence', ed/tr. Mason,HT/Parkinson,GHR [Manchester UP 1967], p.57
A Reaction
This is very reminiscent of Plato, for whom there was no more deeply held belief than that the cosmos is essentially orderly. Coincidences are a nice problem, if they are events with no cause.
| 20716 | False prophets will perform wonders to deceive even the elect [Mark] |
| 5974 | People report seeing through rocks, or over the horizon, or impossibly small works [Plutarch] |
| 7902 | The Buddha made flowers float in the air, to impress people, and make them listen [Mahavastu] |
| 4827 | Priests reject as heretics anyone who tries to understand miracles in a natural way [Spinoza] |
| 4868 | Trying to prove God's existence through miracles is proving the obscure by the more obscure [Spinoza] |
| 12571 | If miracles aim at producing belief, it is plausible that their events are very unusual [Locke] |
| 5030 | Miracles are extraordinary operations by God, but are nevertheless part of his design [Leibniz] |
| 12909 | Everything, even miracles, belongs to order [Leibniz] |
| 12784 | Allow no more miracles than are necessary [Leibniz] |
| 2227 | A miracle violates laws which have been established by continuous unchanging experience, so should be ignored [Hume] |
| 2228 | All experience must be against a supposed miracle, or it wouldn't be called 'a miracle' [Hume] |
| 2229 | To establish a miracle the falseness of the evidence must be a greater miracle than the claimed miraculous event [Hume] |
| 7636 | It can't be more rational to believe in natural laws than miracles if the laws are not rational [Ishaq on Hume] |