An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
In his antireligious "Essay On Miracles", David Hume reiterates a simple message: "No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish".
In his antireligious "Essay On Miracles", David Hume reiterates a simple message: "No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavors to establish".
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781452633503 (1452633509)
Publish date: June 30th 2011
Publisher: Tantor Media
Edition language: English
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Philosophy,
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18th Century
Hume is about as level-headed as they come. He is not interested in proving things, he just wants to be honest about what we can even attempt to understand. Some things can be understood intuitively or demonstratively. Like geometry, algebra or anything else discoverable by thought alone. Then t...
this is my second time I have read this book , and I think there is going to be third , because this book is an ocean of thoughts , you do not get enough of it , in my opinion here where all human thinking came from , later Philosopher get their philosophy from here also , specially Kant .