Up@dawn 2.0

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Extra Credit Exam 2

2. Have you encountered or directly experienced an event you would consider a "miracle" in Hume's sense of the term? Was it a "miracle on ice" when the U.S. beat the U.S.S.R. in 1980? Is it a miracle that K.C. almost won the World Series? Is it a miracle that you and I are alive? Do we need a better word for these events?

I do not believe in miracles. I do no think that exist. Maybe it is because I have never experienced one but I think that the word "miracle" is overused to described an instant where things went the way you had hoped by coincidence such as the U.S. beating U.S.S.R or K.C almost winning the World Series. I do think that there needs to be a better word for occurrences such as these

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