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- ↑ "Yeshiva University Commentator -- Volume 62, Issue 8". 12 March 2000. Archived from the original on 12 March 2000. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ↑ Johnson, David, 1952- (1999). Hume, holism, and miracles. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. ISBN 0-8014-3663-X. OCLC 41834938.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ Fogelin, Robert J. (2003). A defense of Hume on miracles. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-2577-6. OCLC 650305519.
- ↑ Johnson, David, 1952- (2004). Truth without paradox. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 0-8476-9686-3. OCLC 54865283.
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