experienced a miracle, because no one can have an experience that violates the pattern of uniformity. Hume sinks into the slough of circular reasoning, violating the petitio principi principle of logic. He rules out the very possibility of a miracle at the beginning. How does he do this? Hume speaks of “probability quotients” of natural experience. If 100,000 squirrels are found with bushy tails, what happens when someone claims to have discovered a squirrel with a patent-leather tail? The claim