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Can Objective Bayesian Epistemology and religious belief be reconciled?
Objective Bayesianism doesn’t say that you need to have an objective well defined and agreed upon prior before making a belief tenable. It just means that apart from making sure that your priors are ...
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Can Objective Bayesian Epistemology and religious belief be reconciled?
It is not really an issue of compatibility. It is possible to apply Bayesian methods to issues of religious belief such as whether there are gods. Richard Swinburne (The Existence of God, 2nd edition, ...
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Are there objective standards proposed in the literature for estimating the likelihood of a hypothesis when empirical statistics are unavailable?
You say 'these debates may lack any meaningful resolution'. They do. Why do you think there is no agreement on the matter after eons of debate world-wide and many tens of ridiculous questions on the ...
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Are there objective standards proposed in the literature for estimating the likelihood of a hypothesis when empirical statistics are unavailable?
The closest philosophers have to this is the concept of objective bayesianism.
Objective Bayesians contend that, in addition to coherence, there is another epistemic virtue or ideal that needs to be ...
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Are there objective standards proposed in the literature for estimating the likelihood of a hypothesis when empirical statistics are unavailable?
“A likelihood function (often simply called the likelihood) measures
how well a statistical model explains observed data by calculating the
probability of seeing that data under different parameter ...
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Can objective epistemic probabilistic comparisons be established between metaphysical worldviews?
The concept of probability has many and varied interpretations and applications, so some ways of applying the concept to worldviews could fit the template more "rigorously" than others. But ...
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Can objective epistemic probabilistic comparisons be established between metaphysical worldviews?
There is nothing within probability theory that states that it can be applied in certain contexts and not in others. Probability is a tool to model uncertainty in one’s head, and anything that is ...
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Can the science of logic exist when there are no commonly accepted objective philosophical facts?
Today’s logic calculi are conceived as axiomatized formal systems similar to calculi like set theory or other mathematical theories.
Logic does not presuppose philosophical theories. It is just the ...
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Can the science of logic exist when there are no commonly accepted objective philosophical facts?
You ask:
Can the science of logic exist when there are no commonly accepted objective philosophical facts?
Yes, because logic is inherently a normative science about the application of reason to any ...
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Can the science of logic exist when there are no commonly accepted objective philosophical facts?
To answer the question, yes. Formal logic is a set of rules for manipulating ideas. Logic recognizes that those ideas may be false, and ensures that the manipulations will yield an appropriate result ...
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Does a premise based on subjectivity compromise a logical argument seeking to conclude with an objective conclusion/claim?
The answer to your title question is "yes". But the answer to the body of your question is "no". If there were no humans, then this argument for God would not work, but the fact ...
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Does a premise based on subjectivity compromise a logical argument seeking to conclude with an objective conclusion/claim?
Arguments based on what humans can imagine do not necessarily require that there be humans around to do the imagining. They just depend on being able to enumerate the capacity of human understanding ...
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Does a premise based on subjectivity compromise a logical argument seeking to conclude with an objective conclusion/claim?
All arguments are subjective, based on our interpretation of our experiences and our reasoning capability.
We don't have access to objective means of coming to conclusions.
But certainly "...
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Does a premise based on subjectivity compromise a logical argument seeking to conclude with an objective conclusion/claim?
If this argument was applied before humans walked the Earth and there
was no one to conceptualize the "greatest possible being," then, under
this argument, did God not exist before humans ...
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The Notion of Objectivity
The best way to describe the concept of objectivity is from the subject-object dialectical perspective.
Entity
Philosophically, an entity is very difficult to define (what is the lifecycle of an ...
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The Notion of Objectivity
Re. "2 - If there were nothing objective independent of our minds . . ."
Plato's true world is the supersensory world of ideal forms. This is where the "objective things" exist ...
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The Notion of Objectivity
The Notion of Objectivity
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… "Is there an objective thing?", and naturally/logically then "Is there an objective truth?"
1 - If there were ...
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The Notion of Objectivity
The questions you raise are central to debates in philosophy, particularly in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language. Here are some ways philosophers might respond to your ...
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