Given abundant and sometimes well-attested claims of miracles today, Hume’s argument on this point should appear even less persuasive in a twenty-first-century multicultural context than it appeared in his own day (see chs. 7–12). Hume’s argument proceeds mostly by definition rather than induction, and is logically unworkable even on his own philosophic premises. It succeeded historically largely on the weight of his intellectual prestige and its appeal to some popular trends in his intellectual milieu.
