PHL 708 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Empiricism, A Priori And A Posteriori, Transcendental Idealism
12 Jan 2017
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Testimony: trusting that a b based on someone"s testimony. We trust the testimony of witnesses to historians because they have been accountable so far. So, at this point it is fair to believe their claim if they claim p and p up until now has always been the case. Constant conjunction believing in regularities you have observed. Correlation with the facts in past cases (constant conjunction) a law of nature has fill generality, in every observed case p, was followed by q. So, in the case of a law of nature we have proof. Have to have so much faith in that person that the faith is more than perfect. (e 77) that person were to have to of gotten it right every single time. That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous that the fact which it endeavors to establish .
