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Identify David Humes understanding of miracles.
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Identify David Humes understanding of miracles The philosopher David Hume has suggested that a miracle can be defined as 'A transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity or by the interposition of some invisible agent. This is a definition that has found general acceptance by philosophers today. In other words, according to Hume, a miracle is brought about when some 'invisible agent' affects the working of the universe. It is important to note that this 'invisible agent' does not inevitably point to an act of God, as this 'invisible agent' is not, according to Hume, necessarily the God of traditional theism. To clarify exactly what is meant by a 'transgression' in this context, Richard Swinburne has used Biblical examples such as water turning into wine. In these examples it is not the events themselves which make them remarkable but the time scale within which they take place....
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