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Against Miracles as Law-Violations: A Neo-Aristotelian Approach [PDF]

, 2015
Miracles are commonly understood in the way David Hume defined them: as violations of the laws of nature. I argue, however, that the conjunction of Hume’s definition with a neo-Humean view of the laws of nature yields objectionable consequences.
Joel, Archer
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The Anti-Induction for Scientific Realism [PDF]

, 2018
In contemporary philosophy of science, the no-miracles argument and the pessimistic induction are regarded as the strongest arguments for and against scientific realism, respectively. In this paper, I construct a new argument for scientific realism which
Park, Seungbae
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St. Sava’s Miracles in the Folk Tradition, Legends, and Legendary Stories

Књижевна историја, 2020
In the forthcoming work on a certain corpus of legends, stories, and legendary stories, various aspects of the thematic-motive complex of miracles that are attributed to St. Sava or being into direct connection with him are analyzed.
Dejan Ilić
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The Power of God and Miracles [PDF]

, 2015
In this paper we explicate the notion of a miracle and highlight a suitable ontological framework for it. Our proposal draws on insights from Aquinas’s discussion of miracles and from the modern ontology of powers.
Gasser, Georg, Quitterer, Josef
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God in the second book of Maccabees: The connection between words and deeds

In die Skriflig, 2023
This article focuses on God’s image and role in 2 Maccabees. My analysis will build on narratology, especially characterisation, and on the differentiation proposed by Barbara Schmitz in connection with the book of Judith: the distinction between God’s ...
Jan W. Van Henten
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Charisma of Ascetic Saints in the Hagiography of the 12th Century

Religions, 2023
In the 11th–12th centuries, extreme ascetic practices reappeared in Western Europe, in particular, the wearing of hauberks and heavy iron chains, associated with penitence and eremitism.
Edina Bozoky
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Miracles, Trust, and Ennui in Barnes’ Predictivism [PDF]

, 2011
Eric Barnes’ The Paradox of Predictivism is concerned primarily with two facts: predictivism and pluralism. In the middle part of the book, he peers through these two lenses at the tired realist scarecrow of the no-miracles argument.
Magnus, P. D.
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A Critical Study of the Relationship between Experimental Sciences and Prophets' Miracles in the Qur'an [PDF]

Journal of Islamic Studies, 2015
Recent times have witnessed a surge in studies on scientific miracles in the Qur'an and the Sunnah. Interested researchers have been engaged in explaining several phenomena and issues mentioned in the Qur'an from the perspective of experimental sciences.
Abdulsalam Saleh Al-JarAllah
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Historical basis of the Miracula of Saint Symeon in Stefan the First-Crowned’s life of Symeon [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2014
The paper is devoted to the research of the so-called Catalog of Miracles in the Life of Saint Symeon by Stefan the First-Crowned. Because the miracles are divided in the Life into those in which Symeon-Nemanja is revealed as a Saint, and those ...
Komatina Ivana
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Little Miracles of Supersymmetric Evolution of Gauge Couplings [PDF]

, 1996
The invention of supersymmetry, almost exactly 25 years ago, changed the face of high-energy physics. The idea that the observed low-energy gauge groups appear due to the process of spontaneous breaking of a single unifying group $G$ is also quite ...
Shifman, M.
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