Locke’s Miracle Mistake

Sophia 61 (4):727-736 (2022)
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In this paper, I argue that, despite Locke’s explicitly subjectivist definition of miracle, he in fact employs an objectivist understanding of the concept. This contrast between his official definition and his employment of an objectivist understanding of what it is for an event to be a miracle is a result of his confusing the epistemological issue of how to recognize a miracle with the ontological issue of what a miracle is.

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Robert A. Larmer
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Hume's abject failure: the argument against miracles.John Earman - 2000 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Lockean Essentialism and the Possibility of Miracles.Nathan Rockwood - 2018 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 56 (2):293-310.

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