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    Challenges→If God is conceived in a purely metaphysical way with no connection to significant power, knowledge, and goodness, then the problem of evil is irrelevant to that conception of God.

    If a purely metaphysical God is entirely disconnected from power, knowledge, and goodness, the resulting concept is functionally indistinguishable from atheism, rendering the original claim trivially true but philosophically uninteresting.

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    Key Terms

    Atheism(as the main subject of the statement)
    The belief that God does not exist, or the lack of belief in any god.
    Philosophically uninteresting(describing why a weakened God concept fails to add value to philosophical debate)
    A claim or idea that doesn't lead anywhere new or challenge our thinking, even if it might be technically correct.
    functionally indistinguishable(in philosophy of mind and logic)
    Operating or working in exactly the same way, even if the underlying reasons might be different.
    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.

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    metaphysical(Ayer's Logical Positivist usage)
    Language that purports to refer beyond the physical world and lacks empirical consequences, which Ayer classifies as not literally significant
    trivially true(Elster's characterization of methodological individualism; the author notes the ambiguity matters because Elster derives substantive doctrines from the commitment)
    Used by Elster in the vernacular sense of 'platitudinous' rather than the philosophical sense of 'tautologous'

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