id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9042 View source for David Hume - Wikipedia .html text/html 2334 214 66 You are currently unable to edit Wikipedia due to a block affecting your IP address. In his discussion of [[miracle]]s, Hume argues that we should not believe miracles have occurred and that they do not therefore provide us with any reason to think God exists.{{sfn|Bailey|O'Brien|2006|p=101}} In ''An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding'' (Section 10), Hume defines a miracle as "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent". There must be a stream before anything can be interrupted."{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/essayinanswertom00adamiala#page/14/mode/2up |title=An essay in answer to Mr. Hume's Essay on miracles |access-date=16 March 2017|publisher=London : White |year=1767 }} They have also noted that it requires an appeal to inductive inference, as none have observed every part of nature nor examined every possible miracle claim, for instance those in the future. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9042.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9042.txt