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    Challenges→Clifford's Rule — believe only those propositions that enjoy adequate evidential support — is morally valid

    Blaise Pascal and pragmatist thinkers argue that beliefs constitutive of personal identity, commitment, and flourishing may be epistemically self-validating rather than evidentially constrained.

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    Blaise Pascal(the philosopher behind Pascal's wager)
    A 17th-century French mathematician and philosopher famous for arguing that believing in God is a rational bet, even without proof that God exists.
    Epistemically self-validating(as the main claim being made about certain beliefs)
    A belief that proves itself true or justified simply by believing it and seeing it work, rather than needing outside proof first.
    Evidentially constrained(as the opposite of self-validating beliefs)
    Limited or restricted by the requirement that you must have solid proof or evidence before you can reasonably believe something.
    Flourishing(the positive state that might be prevented by MPS)
    A state of living well and reaching your full potential as a person; achieving excellence in how you live.

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    Pragmatist thinkers(as a school of philosophy being discussed)
    Philosophers who judge the truth or value of an idea based on whether it actually works in real life and produces good results, rather than whether it's logically perfect.
    personal identity(Philosophy of personal identity)
    The relation of sameness holding between a person existing at one time and something existing at another time, analyzed here in terms of psychological continuity

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