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Hume on Miracles: Would It Take a Miracle to Believe in a Miracle?

The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2007
AbstractGiven Hume's theory of belief and belief production it is no small task to explain how it is possible for a belief in a miracle to be produced. I argue that belief in a miracle cannot be produced through Hume's standard causal mechanisms and that although education, passion, and testimony initially seem to be promising mechanisms for producing ...
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Of Miracles

2004
AbstractThis section has suffered from its own success. In the first place, it has been so frequently anthologised in collections of readings in the philosophy of religion that it is most frequently read out of context. Restoring it to its place within David Hume's wider argument aids in understanding the argument itself, and in assessing both its ...
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What Is a Miracle?

Southern Medical Journal, 2007
Based on arguments from theology and the philosophy of science, a miracle may be defined as: (1) a real, individual event, the occurrence of which must be (or must have been), at least in principle, susceptible to empirical verification; (2) an event which must be extremely unusual or historically unprecedented from the perspective of empirical ...
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Then a Miracle Occurs

IEEE Software, 2015
Developing software-intensive systems is like many other things, but it's also like no other thing. For the general public, how software is made remains a mystery. The Web extra at https://youtu.be/yVYDwatEpQc is an audio podcast of Grady Booch's On Computing column, in which he discusses how developing software-intensive systems is like many other ...
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The miracle of vaccination

Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 1997
Among all medical procedures, vaccination ranks at the forefront in lives saved and disabling illnesses prevented. Jenner's first experiments with vaccination, 200 years ago, culminated in the eradication of smallpox at the conclusion of a ten–year World Health Organization programme begun in 1967.
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Waiting for a miracle

Nursing, 2003
Despite all the evidence, Joan clung to "false" hope for her father-with a surprising result.
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… and then a Miracle Occurs

1993
A satisfactory understanding of the connection between mind and matter should answer the following questions: What sort of brain action corresponds to a conscious thought? How is the content of a thought related to the form of the corresponding brain action? How do conscious thoughts guide bodily actions?
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Waiting for a Miracle

Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 2002
had a very supportive wife, Carolyn, who stood by him at every point in life. Both were CPA accountants, although Carolyn had not been working for many years due to the success of their business and the hiring of more staff. They owned a very nice house in an attractively affluent neighborhood. Both were graduates of a nationally known Bible school and
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The Miracle

Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, 2020
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A Miracle Is a Miracle

The Hudson Review, 1958
Sidney Monas, Boris Pasternak
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