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“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 endeavours to establish.”
--David Hume, Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding, 1748.
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Thank you Lindsay for citing the one true prophet. As always ignored in his own land.
Posted by: Richard | August 07, 2005 at 01:42 PM
Hear, hear. Hume, apostle of our modern angst. Destroyer of all gods. Prophet of uncertainty. Father of modern epistemology. Progenitor of WVO Quine's non-normative epistemology. Can I get an AMEN?
Posted by: epistemology | August 08, 2005 at 06:36 PM
AMEN - Life's difficult and loaded with paradox (some of which are very humorous for those who get the joke).
Dealing with complications and refusing to over-simplify in order to avoid those complications are at the heart of every interesting life.
AMEN again - Angst lets you know you're alive as long as it doesn't paralyse you.
Posted by: Richard | August 09, 2005 at 11:27 AM