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Bayes, Hume, and Miracles

Faith and Philosophy 10 (3):293-310 (1993)

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  1. Hume on miracles: Bayesian interpretation, multiple testimony, and the existence of God.Rodney D. Holder - 1998 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (1):49-65.
    Hume's argument concerning miracles is interpreted by making approximations to terms in Bayes's theorem. This formulation is then used to analyse the impact of multiple testimony. Individual testimonies which are ‘non-miraculous’ in Hume's sense can in principle be accumulated to yield a high probability both for the occurrence of a single miracle and for the occurrence of at least one of a set of miracles. Conditions are given under which testimony for miracles may provide support for the existence of God.
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  • Miracles.Michael Levine - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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  • (1 other version)The Argument from Miracles.Daniel Bonevac - 2011 - Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion 3:16-40.
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  • Hume’s Maxim and Accepting Testimonies of Miracles.Jędrzej Gosiewski - 2024 - Roczniki Filozoficzne 72 (4):89-108. Translated by Joanna Frydrych.
    David Hume’s well known argument against miracles has its culmination in the so called Hume’s Maxim. According to the maxim “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: And even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the superior only gives us an assurance suitable to that degree of force, which remains, after deducting (...)
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  • Bibliography.[author unknown] - 2008 - In Elizabeth Schmidt Radcliffe (ed.), A Companion to Hume. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 529–552.
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  • The Hume Literature, 1986-1993.William E. Morris - 1994 - Hume Studies 20 (2):299-326.
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