or not. Instead, people should rely on their own senses and also ask themselves how credible is the source of information. But not only should we consider the credibility of the person giving the testimony of the occurrence of the miracle, but we must also consider the likelihood of the miracle occurring. Would it hurt the witnesses' reputation more by making the claim than it would if he did not make the claim at all? Hume's test for believing the testim!
ony lies in whether "it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived, or that the fact, which he relates, should really have happened" (710). When he weighs them against each other, he determines which would be the greater miracle and then rejects it. If it is more miraculous that the testimony is untrue than the actual miracle, then the possibility of Hume beli
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