Book · 1748 · Nonfiction

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Oxford University Press, USA · 304 pages
★ 6.7 editorial score

Hume's clearest book, and his most dangerous: no testimony establishes a miracle, he argues, unless its falsehood would be more miraculous than the event reported. Every later defense of miracles answers him.

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1748Depicts Age of Enlightenment