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Babbage, Charles - The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise
Identifier
004027
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Another aspect to Babbage's view on miracles, he was responding in this chapter of his book to a man called Hume who said they didn't exist
A description of the experience
from The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise: A fragment - Charles Babbage
A priori argument in favour of the occurrence of miracles
In this chapter I shall prove that:
It is more probable that any law, at the knowledge of which we have arrived by observation, shall be subject to one of those violations which, according to Hume's definition, constitutes a miracle, than that it should not be so subjected