David Hume was a British empiricist, meaning he believed that all knowledge came from the senses. He argued against the existence of innate ideas, arguing that humans only have knowledge of things they directly experience. These claims have a major impact on his argument against the existence of miracles, and in this essay I will explain and critically evaluate this argument. In his discussion of "Miracles" in section Basically, a miracle is something that happens that is contrary to what would happen given the structure of the universe. He also states that a miracle is a “transgression of a law of nature by a particular turn of the divinity, or by the interposition of an invisible agent”2. Hume argues that it is impossible to infer the existence of a deity from the existence of the world and that causes cannot be determined from effects. One of the most important aspects of Hume's argument is his understanding of probability. Hume states that belief is often the result of probability in that we believe that an event that has happened most often is most likely. Regarding miracles, this suggests that miraculous events should be called miracles only where it would be even more incredible if they were not. This is Hume's argument in the first part of Miracles. He states that if someone tells you that a miracle has happened, you do not need to physically go out and examine the evidence to determine it, all you have to do is consider the concept of the miracle and whether it is a violation of the laws of nature, we must reason according to...... middle of article......Works CitedBeuchamp, Tom (ed.), David Hume, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, (Oxford University Press 1999). Bricke, John, Mind and Morality, (Clarendon Press Oxford 1996). Geivett, R Douglas & Habermas, R Gary, In Defense Of Miracles, (InterVarsity Press, 1997). Houston, J, Miracles Reported - A Critique of Hume, (Cambridge University Press 1994). McGrew, Timothy, "Miracles", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2010 edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = .Norton, David (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Hume, (Cambridge University Press 1993) Taylor, Christopher, PY2901 Reading, Reading Handout (St Andrews 2011).http://www.humesociety.org/hs/issues/v16n1/fogelin/fogelin- v16n1.pdfhttp://www.infidels.org/library/modern /victor_reppert/miracles.html