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    Supports→The claim conflates Strong Evidentialism with Clifford's strict formulation, ignoring evidentialist positions that allow belief under genuine evidential symmetry.

    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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    Key Terms

    Core commitments(as used in philosophy of theory)
    The main central ideas or principles that a theory is built on and relies on to be true.
    P and not-P(as used in logic)
    Philosophical shorthand where 'P' represents any statement (like 'the library is open'), and 'not-P' represents its opposite ('the library is closed'). These two cannot both be true at the same time.
    Rational belief(epistemology (theory of knowledge))
    A belief that makes sense to hold given what you know and understand at the time, even if it might be wrong.
    epistemically possible(as used in epistemology)
    Something that could be true based on what we can know or learn; contrasts with things that are logically impossible or ruled out by the rules of knowledge itself.
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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

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