... was skeptical about everything including miracles. In his book An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, he dedicates a section to explain how unlikely miracles are; this is section X. In this section he goes on to say that they are the least probable things to occur. Hume defines miracles as, "a transgression of a law of nature by ... is improbable. When discussing a miracle, the witness of the miracle play a role as to the likeliness of it, as far as Hume is concerned. Obviously, human testimony can be true or not(either a lie or exaggeration of the truth). Before talking to in depth ...

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