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The Everlasting Check : Hume on Miracles / Alexander George.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (98 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674289246
  • 9780674089105
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Hume's Miracles -- 2. Hume's Theorem -- 3. Hume and Self-Undermining -- 4. Hume and Testimony -- 5. Objections to Hume -- 6. Too Big for a Blunder? -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: Alexander George's lucid interpretation of Hume's "Of Miracles" provides fresh insights into this provocative text, explaining the concepts and claims involved. He also shows why Hume's argument fails to engage with committed religious thought and why philosophical argumentation so often proves ineffective in shaking people's deeply held beliefs.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Hume's Miracles -- 2. Hume's Theorem -- 3. Hume and Self-Undermining -- 4. Hume and Testimony -- 5. Objections to Hume -- 6. Too Big for a Blunder? -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Alexander George's lucid interpretation of Hume's "Of Miracles" provides fresh insights into this provocative text, explaining the concepts and claims involved. He also shows why Hume's argument fails to engage with committed religious thought and why philosophical argumentation so often proves ineffective in shaking people's deeply held beliefs.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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