Examine what our habits lead us to believe.
Impressions and ideas distinguish different intensities of experience without guaranteeing a perfect copy of every content.
Compare pain with its memory: their contents can resemble one another without the same vivacity.
Causal inference is natural and indispensable without being a rational demonstration of the future.
A machine has always worked: this creates an expectation without proving it will work tomorrow.
Concern for others’ welfare explains why benefits to strangers can affect us.
Help given to a stranger can please you without bringing any personal advantage.
Miracles require weighing testimony’s credibility against evidence supporting natural regularity.
An extraordinary report invites comparison between testimony quality and competing explanations.