Jefferson and Hume. .(Letter to the Editor)

From: Skeptical Inquirer | Date: November 1, 2002 | Copyright information

The principle that extraordinary claims require extraordinarily strong evidence has been credited to Carl Sagan. This is unfair, according to Shawn Carlson (Letters, May/June 2002), who argues that the honor belongs to Thomas Jefferson, who made a statement implying that principle in 1805. We should not stop there. The principle can be found in a famous essay on miracles by the great Scottish philosopher David Hume. The essay was first published in 1748 as Chapter 10 of his Enquiry ...

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