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'works', 'What is Knowledge-First Epistemology?' and 'Enquiry Conc Human Understanding'
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28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique
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It can never be a logical contradiction to assert the non-existence of something thought to exist [Hume]
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Whatever 'is' may 'not be'. No negation of a fact can involve a contradiction. The non-existence of any being, without exception, is as clear and distinct an idea as its existence.
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From:
David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], XII.III.132)
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28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / c. Teleological Proof critique
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You can't infer the cause to be any greater than its effect [Hume]
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Full Idea:
If we infer a cause from an effect, we must proportion the one to the other. …a body of ten ounces raised in a scale proves the counterbalance exceeds ten ounces, but not that it exceeds a hundred.
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From:
David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], XI.105)
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28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles
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A miracle violates laws which have been established by continuous unchanging experience, so should be ignored [Hume]
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A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature, and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle is as entire as any argument from experience can possible be imagined.
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From:
David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], X.I.90)
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All experience must be against a supposed miracle, or it wouldn't be called 'a miracle' [Hume]
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Full Idea:
There must be a uniform experience against every miraculous event, otherwise the event would not merit that appellation.
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From:
David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], X.I.90)
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To establish a miracle the falseness of the evidence must be a greater miracle than the claimed miraculous event [Hume]
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Full Idea:
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavours to establish.
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From:
David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], X.I.91)
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