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Defining Miracles: Violations of the Laws of Nature
Author(s) -
Luck Morgan
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
philosophy compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.973
H-Index - 25
ISSN - 1747-9991
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2010.00373.x
Subject(s) - miracle , philosophy , epistemology , law , political science , theology
Philosophers have made numerous and varied attempts to analyse the concept of a miracle. To the end, an assortment of necessary and sufficient conditions for the truth an instantiation of a miracle have been offered. In this paper we discuss one of the most common of these conditions – the violation restriction. This restriction holds that all miracles involve a violation of a law of nature.