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Cyril Hume (March 16, 1900 – March 26, 1966) was an American novelist and screenwriter. Hume was a graduate of Yale University, where he edited campus humor magazine The Yale Record. He was an editor of the collection The Yale Record Book of Verse: 1872–1922 (1922). [1]
A-Level (AS and A2) Religious Studies revision looking at the Philosophy of Religion and the concept of miracles. Topcs include arguments for and against Hume, plus modern thinkers such as CS Lewis, John Polkinghorne, Anthony Flew, Richard Swinburne and Maurice Wiles.
Hume advanced his definition of miracles. llume famously defines a miracle as "a in order to argue that it is never rational to violation of the laws of nature."1 He then accept that an event is miraculous.
Summary. The problem of personal identity, as philosophers understand it today, emerged from the discussion of identity that Locke added to the second edition of The Essay concerning Human Understanding, published in 1694.
- Jane L. McIntyre
- 2008
AA cause is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it, that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other. (T 1.3.14.31) Most interpreters consider the two definitions to be fundamentally different.
On Hume’s view, roughly speaking, Causation must have the ‘a priori inference licensing property’, or ‘AP property’. That is, it must be such that genuine detection of it brings with it the possibility of making a priori certain causal inferences.
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Much earlier, Hume also wrote the screenplay for the Tarzan movie Tarzan, the Ape Man (1932) and subsequent MGM Tarzan Films; he is said to have suggested Johnny Weissmuller for the role of Tarzan. [GSt]
