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    Challenges→The equiprobability-principle approach to the inductive step in the argument from evil is superior to alternative accounts.

    An approach that yields precise probability bounds via an arbitrary partition is epistemically worse than inference to the best explanation, which makes no such spurious precision claims.

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    Key Terms

    Arbitrary partition(as used in logic and mathematics)
    Dividing something into groups or categories based on random choice rather than natural or logical reasons.
    Epistemically worse(epistemology)
    Less reliable or less likely to lead you toward truth from the perspective of knowledge and belief.
    Probability bounds(as used in statistics and reasoning)
    A range that shows the lowest and highest possible chances something could be true—like saying there's between a 30% and 70% chance it will rain tomorrow.
    Spurious precision(as what probabilistic distributions wrongly impose)
    False exactness; pretending something is more precise or measurable than it actually is in reality.
    epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)

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    A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
    inference to the best explanation(Used to characterize the structure of the argument for moral non-objectivism)
    A form of reasoning in which the hypothesis that best explains the observed phenomena is inferred to be true

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