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    It is not the case that Accounts of the world based on divine revelation are epistemically unwarranted for humans.

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    • 1.Humans must draw inferences from perceptual signs rather than claim certainty.
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    • 2.Claims based on divine revelation assert a certainty humans cannot possess.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Any claimed revelation must be interpreted through fallible human cognitive and linguistic faculties before it can yield propositional content.
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    • 2.Fallible interpretation of a source cannot produce a less fallible epistemic product than the interpretive faculties themselves permit.
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    • 3.Therefore revelation-based accounts inherit the same inferential limitations Alcmaeon identifies in ordinary perceptual reasoning.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.Competing religious traditions advance mutually contradictory revelation-based claims with equal internal confidence, as Xenophanes observed of culturally variable god-concepts.
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    • 2.When equally confident testimony-based methods systematically yield contradictory conclusions, no non-circular criterion drawn from within any single tradition can adjudicate between them.
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    • 3.Epistemically unwarranted belief-forming methods are precisely those that cannot be validated without circularity or independent evidential grounding humans demonstrably lack.
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