Hume and Miracles

Hume and Miracles

A miracle is, by definition, a violation of a law of nature, and a law of nature is, by definition, a regularity—or the statement of a regularity—about what happens, about the way the world works; consequently, if some event actually occurs, no regularity which its occurrence infringes or, no regularity-statement which it falsifies) can really be a law of nature; so this event, however unusual or surprising, cannot after all be a miracle.

Those who have read Hume may be tempted to dismiss such examples as lying outside of the ambit of Hume's argument against ...