An idea from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

A miracle breaks a law of nature, like a dead man coming back to life. Those laws rest on experience that has never once failed. Critics answered this within 20 years, and in 2000 John Earman argued its first half fails outright; others still defend it.

From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

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