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^{page 424 note 3} Enquiry, IV, 94.Google Scholar

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^{page 426 note 1} Enquiry, IV, 93 n.

^{page 426 note 2} Ibid.

^{page 426 note 3} Ibid., IV, 107; Taylor David Hume and the Miraculous p.49.

^{page 427 note 1} Hume admits that there are only degrees of probability. Miracles are the most improbable of things. He does not say that miracles are impossible, but that some are absurd.

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^{page 427 note 3} Ibid., I, p. 466.

^{page 427 note 4} Ibid., I, p. 405.

^{page 427 note 5} Ibid., I, 429.

^{page 427 note 6} Ibid., I, 430.

^{page 427 note 7} Enquiry, IV, 92 n.

^{page 427 note 8} Treatise, I, 423.

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^{page 428 note 2} Ibid., I, 321.

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^{page 428 note 5} Treatise, I, 319. “Were ideas entirely loose and unconnected, chance alone could join them.” In a letter he protests that he never defended the absurdity that a thing could come into being without a cause: only that our certainty of the contrary arises neither from intuition nor demonstration, but from another source.

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^{page 429 note 2} Enquiry, IV, 31.

^{page 429 note 3} Treatise, I, 409.

^{page 429 note 4} Ibid., I, 542.

^{page 429 note 5} Ibid., I, 545.

^{page 429 note 6} Ibid., I, 511.

^{page 429 note 8} Treatise, I, p. 475.Google Scholar

^{page 429 note 7} Hist. Eng. Thought, I, p. 49.Google Scholar

^{page 430 note 1} On a particular Providence.

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^{page 430 note 3} Ibid., I, p. 340.

^{page 430 note 4} Ibid., I, p. 410.

^{page 430 note 5} Laird, Hume's Philosophy, 95,282. “The original draft probably belonged to the first design of the Treatise. It was cancelled not to give offence.”

^{page 431 note 1} This would not exclude the suggested alternative of “organization": that in nature as in animals or plants there is “a great vivifying principle” Dialogues, II, p. (452), “an original inherent principle of order” (p. 419).

^{page 431 note 2} Kant had read and approved the criticisms of the Dialogues and incorporated them in his final revision of the Critique (Kemp Smith).

^{page 432 note 1} Professor Laird points to the parallel close of Cicero de natura deorum. There Cicero, an eclectic of the Academy, who held speculatively with the sceptical Carneades, and practically with the mitigated scepticism of his teacher Philo, leans to the view of Stoics like Cleanthes who pressed the argument from design. Hume is speculatively a Pyrrhonian sceptic, practically a mitigated Academic sceptic (Enquiry, IV, 132), a Philo deferring on like grounds to Cleanthes.

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^{page 432 note 3} Ibid., I, p. 105.

^{page 432 note 4} Ibid., I, p. 146.

^{page 432 note 5} Ibid., I, p. 105.

^{page 433 note 1} His tombstone bore only name and dates “leaving it to posterity to add the rest.”