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Donald Gillies A Bayesian proof of a humean principle article Hume bases his argument against miracles on an informal principle. This paper gives a formal explication of this principle of Hume’s, and then shows that this explication can be rigorously proved in a Bayesian framework.

A Bayesian proof of a humean principle

Donald Gillies

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 42, no. 2, 1991, pp. 255–256

Abstract

Hume bases his argument against miracles on an informal principle. This paper gives a formal explication of this principle of Hume’s, and then shows that this explication can be rigorously proved in a Bayesian framework.

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