God's 'bootstrapping' from fallibilist belief to certainty via self-knowledge of infallibility presupposes the infallibility it purports to establish, committing the same circularity Alston identified in epistemic self-trust.
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Presupposes(as describing what Plantinga's argument takes for granted)
Assumes something to be true without proving it—like how an argument might presuppose that logic works, without first arguing that logic is valid.
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
circularity(as used in logic and epistemology)
A logical problem where an explanation depends on the very thing it's trying to explain, going in a circle rather than providing genuine support.
infallibility(Used by Mill to characterize the epistemic error made by those who would suppress beliefs they take to be false or harmful)
The assumption that one's own judgment about the truth or falsity of a belief cannot be mistaken
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
self-knowledge(Presented as the sole means to mokṣa, contrasted with ritual action or meditative practice aimed at gaining brahman.)
A radical epistemic shift by which one simultaneously sheds limited self-identities and directly recognizes one's existence as nondual consciousness.