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| Miracles: A miracle is an event that is inexplicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore attributed to a supernatural or preternatural cause. See also Mysticism, Magical Thinking, Time Travel._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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John Bigelow on Miracles - Dictionary of Arguments
I 228 Wonder/miracles/similarity/possible worlds/relevance/Bigelow/Pargetter: what kind of similarity between worlds is the relevant one? >Similarity, >Possible worlds, >Relevance. It cannot be about certain facts. That would not be sufficient. >Facts, >Sufficiency. 1st world u: Darwin asks his father for permission to sail off, gets it and writes his book we've all heard about 2nd world w: Darwin does not get permission, does not sail off and does not write his book 3rd world v: Darwin doesn't get permission to go, sails anyway... ...and his father has forgotten what he said. I 229 Solution/Lewis: Def similarity metrics/possible worlds/Lewis: by fewer exceptions in one possible world to laws that apply in the other world. >Similarity metrics. Example Darwin: A"Miracle" would be the wrong acoustic transmission of the father's statement and the forgetting by the father. >Miracles/Lewis. Miracles/Lewis: but world u could also contain miracles: the prehistory is the same as in v, but the decision of the father is different, but the causal situation would be the same and the miracle of the other decision would perhaps be just as great as that of memory erasure and false hearing. >Traces/Lewis._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Big I J. Bigelow, R. Pargetter Science and Necessity Cambridge 1990 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-20