Genuine evidential symmetry is epistemically possible; when P and not-P have equal support, some evidentialist frameworks allow rational belief without violating evidentialism's core commitments.
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(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
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
evidential symmetry(Cited as the condition that makes the classical interpretation of probability plausible for gambling games)
A situation in which available evidence provides no reason to favor any one outcome over another.
evidentialism(Used as the standard that theistic philosophers may grant and then attempt to satisfy)
The epistemic position that belief in God (or any proposition) requires adequate evidence or argument to be justified