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Research Post: Petitionary Prayer

By Wisdumb | April 22, 2012

1) For any petitionary prayer that is granted, the result will either make the world better or worse
2) If the result makes the world better, God would have made this state of affairs obtain absent of our prayer (and so asking is pointless)
3) If the result makes the world worse, God will not grant the [...]

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Research Post: Can we be blameless when we hold unjustified beliefs?

By Wisdumb | April 22, 2012

So suppose there is a not so intelligent person. Call him Mr. Unfortunate. He is running some experiments and he is just awful at analyzing the data. Mr. Unfortunate has no clue that he is doing things wrong. He is doing the best he can. Mr. Unfortunate is having unjustified beliefs because whatever he comes [...]

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Second Graded Blog Post

By Wisdumb | April 13, 2012

Cosmological Argument
1) Either there is at least one uncaused cause, the series of causes goes back in time forever infinitely, or something caused itself to exist.
2) Nothing can cause itself to exist.
3) A series of causes cannot go back in time forever. (infinitely)
4) Therefore, there must be a first cause.
Motivation: Premise 1 contains all of [...]

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Second Graded Blog Post

By Wisdumb | April 13, 2012

Freedom And Foreknowledge
1) If God is omniscient then God knows every future action I will make
2) If God knows every future action I will make, then I cannot act otherwise
3) If I cannot act otherwise then I am not free
4) If I am not free then I do not have free will
5) Therefore, an omniscient [...]

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Monday 200–Proper Functionalism

By Wisdumb | April 9, 2012

This is an externalist theory. Internalism is bad because it can not handle some Gettier cases. Externalism relieves us from gettier cases unlike internalism b/c as we can see from the cases, no matter how well things seem to be going for the person internally, if the person has some faulty detecting capabilities, if the [...]

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First Graded Post

By Wisdumb | March 23, 2012

The problem of evil:
1) If evil exists then God does not exist
2) Evil exists
3) Therefore, God does not exist
Defining technical terms:
God= omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent
Omnipotent= power to do anything that is logically possible
Omnibenevolent= all-loving and morally perfect
Omniscient= knows all true propositions
Evil= pain and suffering
Motivation for premise 1:
Evil and God can’t coexist because God would not allow for it. God [...]

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First Graded Post

By Wisdumb | March 23, 2012

Problem of Divine Hiddenness:
1) If God exists then God would make sure we have evidence of his existence
2) We do not have evidence of God’s existence
3) Therefore, God does not exist
God= Omnibenevolent, Omniscient, Omnipotent
Omnibenevolent= All-loving and morally perfect
Omnipotent= Has the power to everything that is logically possible
Omniscient= Knows all true propositions
Motivation for premise 1:
Premise [...]

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TIF argument response

By Wisdumb | February 23, 2012

The Truth indicative feature (TIF) argument tries to show why modest foundationalism is flawed. The argument is as follows.
1)If B is a justified belief based on R, then either R has a TIF or R does not have a TIF
2) If R has a TIF that S is justified in believing, then B is not [...]

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Blindly forgiving

By Wisdumb | February 6, 2012

We were saying God wants us to lead a selfless life. God also wants us to act in a just manner, right?
So I’m thinking blind forgiveness is a good example of why we can’t do both. To instaforgive seems unjust. To instaforgive is also selfless. Either way we go we have wronged God. Is this [...]

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