Miracles and Agents
Suppose Jones sees a mountain in the distance and says to the mountain, Mountain, cast yourself into the sea!', whereupon the mountain is observed to rise up from its surroundings and fall into the water. If such a phenomenon occurred, why should we say that Jones moved the mountain, rather th...
| Published in: | Religious studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1975]
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Religious studies
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| Summary: | Suppose Jones sees a mountain in the distance and says to the mountain, Mountain, cast yourself into the sea!', whereupon the mountain is observed to rise up from its surroundings and fall into the water. If such a phenomenon occurred, why should we say that Jones moved the mountain, rather than that Jones addressed the mountain in a certain way and that by a strange coincidence the mountain happened to move an instant later and fall into the water? |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Attributing miracles to agents (1977)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412500008453 |