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What is the connection between Hume’s analysis of causation and his views concerning the lack of credibility of testimony to the miraculous? Hume thinks that all reasoning about matters of fact, any a posteriori reasoning, is a species of reasoning founded on the relation of cause and effect. Our judgments concerning the reliability of testimony, whether to ordinary or extraordinary events, should therefore be consonant with the principles of reasoning from experience that are based on the cause-effect relation.
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Levine, M.P. (1989). Hume’s Account of a Posteriori Reasoning. In: Hume and the Problem of Miracles: A Solution. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2245-7_1
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