Lecture 17: Hume’s “Of Miracles,” Part 1

Ian Ramsey Centre: The Deist Controversy by Oxford University

Jun 22, 201737:39Religion & Spirituality

The second in this series on Hume explicates the details of his argument and gives an explanation of the argument in part one, as well as responses from Hume’s contemporary, William Adam, and the Mathematician Charles Ba...

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