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Miracles are often defined as events which "violate" the "laws of nature"
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Miracles are often defined as events which "violate" the "laws of nature" (or, equivalently, "natural law(s)" or "scientific law(s)"). Whether miracles, as thus defined, ever occur (or even can occur) will thus depend on whether there are such things as "laws of nature", and on whether anything ever "violates" (or even can ever violate) these laws. But before we can know whether there are such laws and whether they ever are or can be violated, we must first determine what is meant by the term "law of nature" (or natural law, or scientific law). It will be convenient for present purposes to distinguish between a weak sense and a strong sense of the term "law of nature". In the weak sense of this term, a law of nature is simply a universally true empirical generalisation in a sense more or less like that attributed (perhaps unfairly) to Hume. It is universally...
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