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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Sec. 10 "Of Miracles," Part 1 (1748) - Hume, David | WIST Quotations
In our reasonings concerning matter of fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance, from the highest certainty to the lowest species of moral evidence. A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence. [...] No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such…