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    Challenges→Proponents of the fine-tuning argument for design may motivate a non-negligible ur-prior P(D) by appealing to a priori arguments for God's existence such as the ontological argument

    Bootstrapping a Bayesian prior from a disputed a priori argument imports all controversies of that argument into the fine-tuning inference, compounding rather than resolving epistemic uncertainty.

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    Key Terms

    Bayesian prior(statistics and reasoning about uncertainty)
    A starting belief or assumption you plug into a mathematical formula before looking at new evidence; it shapes what conclusions you'll draw from that evidence.
    Compounding(general reasoning)
    Getting worse or more complex by layering problems on top of each other, rather than making things simpler.
    Epistemic uncertainty(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge))
    The doubt or lack of confidence we have about whether something is actually true or whether we really know it.
    Fine-tuning inference(philosophy of cosmology and existence)
    A type of argument that tries to explain why the universe seems perfectly adjusted for life to exist, often by suggesting a designer or multiple universes.
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    Knowable independently of empirical experience; here treated as a consequence of analyticity.
    bootstrapping(Pattern discovery in knowledge extraction)
    A method of expanding an initial set of extraction patterns or hypotheses by using known examples to discover new ones

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