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Time Travel and the Paranormal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Antony Flew
Affiliation:
University of Reading

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1988

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References

1 Philosophy 62 (1987), 227236.Google Scholar

2 Ibid. 227.

3 Ibid. 227.

4 Ibid. 227.

5 Ibid. 228. But Sorensen is in error when on the previous page he presents the argument attacked as: ‘if there are miracles, then God exists; there are miracles, so God exists’. For what Hume is primarily concerned to refute is: not any argument of a natural theology; but the contention that the claims of a candidate revelation can be authenticated by the occurrence of endorsing miracles. See, for instance, my Hume's Philosophy of Belief (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961), 166213.Google Scholar

6 Sorensen, , op. cit. 230.Google Scholar

7 For explanations of these terms see Readings in the Philosophical Problems of Parapsychology, Flew, Antony (ed.) (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus, 1987).Google Scholar

8 See, for instance, ‘The Presuppositions of Survival’, Philosophy 62 (1987) 1730.CrossRefGoogle Scholar