For Hume the highest court of appeal is probability. ... In order to reach this conclusion he went though a simple thought process: beliefs about matters of fact are decided according to probability; laws of nature are the beliefs which have the greatest degree of probability; anything which goes against the laws of nature, are improbable and not worth believing; all miracles defy the laws of nature. ... What he believes is based off of probability, and that the laws of nature are always likely to hold true. ... The laws of nature will still always be more probable then a miracle, because pr...

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