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ASSESS HUME’S ARGUMENT AGAINST MIRACLES
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ESSAY 4: ASSESS HUME'S ARGUMENT AGAINST MIRACLES. To assess Hume's argument against miracles, it is necessary to begin with, his definition of what a miracle is. For Hume a miracle is a 'transgression of a law of nature by a particular violation of the deity or by the interposition of some invisible agent'. In his argument Hume does not set out to destroy the concept of a miracle, entirely, but rather prove that the likelihood of a miracle occurring is very unlikely. For Hume, a miracle by definition goes against the uniformal experience that we humans have of the metaphysical world. For so long, people know that wine does not turn into water without assistance, and that people cannot walk on water and even more people do not come back from the dead. The prior knowledge we have, has been handed down from years of actual experience of such matters...
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