Hume's Problem
Induction and the Justification of Belief
Howson, Colin Professor of Philosophy, London School of Economics
Print publication date: 2000 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-825037-1







doi:10.1093/0198250371.003.0012

Colin Howson
Abstract: The coda discusses Hume's famous account of miracles in the Enquiry, and his criterion for belief in miracles, and shows that it amounts to a simple argument in the probability calculus.

Keywords: Bayes's theorem, David Hume, Hume's criterion, miracles,

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