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David Hume

Commit Hume to the Flames

January 31, 2019 by Randal

“If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school of metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: David Hume, empiricism, Enlightenment, rationalism, self-referential defeat

29. Craig Keener on miracles

December 23, 2013 by Randal

From the crossing of the Red Sea to the virgin birth, miracles occupy a central role in the biblical narratives. Alas, their role in modern life has been decidedly more ambiguous. That ambiguity owes much to the skeptical eighteenth century philosopher David Hume who famously defined a miracle as a violation of the laws of nature. […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, Craig Keener, David Hume, history, miracles, providence

Squeezing David Hume’s big toe (and other ironic ways to honor the naive skeptical tradition)

June 11, 2012 by Randal

As you probably know, the idea of “tradition” has not received great press in the modern age. In particular the appeal to a grand tradition as the legitimation (or partial legitimation) for a specific knowledge discourse is categorically rejected as naive and question-begging. Undoubtedly one of the most pivotal quotes expressing this skepticism comes from […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, David Hume, epistemology, humanism, Sam Harris, skepticism, tradition

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