
HoP 396 - Lorraine Daston on Renaissance Science
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Are Wonders an Exception to Natural Laws?
There is a clear trend, much remarked upon and muchdisapproved of by religious authorities, of seeing ever more pleasure in these strange phenomena. What about the idea that wonders are an exception to natural laws? As before an som under the heading of miracles? And in fact, this is how hume deals with miracles. He talks about aa miracle as a departure from natural laws. And igess. You find this wailing you by miracles all the way through the tradition.
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