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    Aesthetic deism posits a creator motivated by beauty rath... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Omni-theism is no more probable intrinsically than aesthetic deism.

    Aesthetic deism posits a creator motivated by beauty rather than moral goodness, but Iris Murdoch's account treats goodness and beauty as co-convergent transcendentals, eliminating the asymmetry Swinburne needs.

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    Co-convergent(describing the relationship between goodness and beauty)
    Two things that come together or merge into the same point; here, it means goodness and beauty ultimately point toward or become the same thing.
    Iris Murdoch(as a philosopher referenced in ethics and metaphysics)
    A 20th-century British philosopher and novelist who argued that 'the Good' is a real, impersonal force or reality that we can perceive — kind of like a moral truth that exists independently of any personal God.
    Richard Swinburne(as a philosopher cited on divine intervention)
    A contemporary British philosopher of religion who uses logical arguments to defend belief in God and explores questions about miracles and divine action.
    aesthetic deism(The alternative hypothesis employed in the decisive evidence argument)
    An alternative hypothesis to omni-theism, posited as many times more probable than omni-theism; arguably a form of theism itself

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    asymmetry(Modal logic frame semantics)
    A frame property expressible in hybrid logic by the formula c→□¬◇c, meaning if world x accesses world y, then y does not access x.
    beauty(André Félibien's aesthetic theory, in the context of the debate between color and drawing in 17th-century French art criticism)
    A result of the proportion and symmetry between corporeal and material parts
    goodness(Russell's 1897 definition, where 'we' may refer to the community at large or to the speaker)
    That which we desire to desire
    transcendentals(Philip the Chancellor's argument for the unity of intellect and will)
    Metaphysical properties (such as the true and the good) that are co-extensive across all being, differing only intensionally (in concept) but not extensionally (in reference)

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