... the right precautions and training) lay in the powers he had conferred on us. God could break this necessity at will, as he did whenever he decided to intervene miraculously in his Creation. But sceptics, most notoriously David Hume, have challenged this presumption. They argue that there seems to be no logic to the necessity of experience. We may expect the sun to rise tomorrow, but (as Bertrand Russell pointed out) logically we are in no different position from the turkey who expects his lunch on Christmas Eve on the reasonable grounds that he has had such a lunch on every day previously. Things could go wrong at any time. Yet this is not to deny such necessity - generally called 'nomic' (meaning 'lawlike') to distinguish it from other sorts of necessity, like 'logical'. Nor that it does seem to be marked by its ability to bear counter-factual conditionals. Suppose someone asks ...

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