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Would Pascal's Wager hold validity if doxastic involuntarism were true?
According to Wikipedia, Pascal's wager is defined as follows:
The wager uses the following logic (excerpts from Pensées, part III, §233):
God is, or God is not. Reason cannot decide between the two ...
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Can we choose to believe in God?
Philosophically, arguments both for and against the existence of God can be found.
Alex O'Connor and Joe Schmid have compiled the following:
Arguments For:
The Contingency Argument
The Kalam ...
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Is Blaise Pascal's approach to "curing unbelief" in the proposition that God exists philosophically sound?
Hence it comes that, if there are as many risks on one side as on the
other, the course is to play even; and then the certainty of the stake
is equal to the uncertainty of the gain, so far is it from ...
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Can a reliabilist have a reliably justified belief in God?
Reliabilism is defined by several sources as follows:
Reliabilism is an approach to the nature of knowledge and of justified belief. Reliabilism about justification, in its simplest form, says that a ...
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Can God make the belief in His own existence justified (if He exists)?
In a hypothetical scenario in which God exists, would God be able to make the belief in His existence justified for humans? If so, how? What would God need to do to accomplish that goal? If not, does ...
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Is it a contradiction to believe God is both transcendent and omnipresent?
From a classical theistic perspective, God both transcends time and space, yet is also present everywhere. But how can God be both outside time and space and yet be present everywhere?
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