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    Challenges→Spiritual messages received through mystical encounters in traditional African religion are insufficient to constitute an adequate basis for a coherent ethical system.

    If even sparse but epistemically reliable moral testimony from divine sources can ground obligations, the 'too few' objection conflates quantity of revelation with normative sufficiency.

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    Epistemically reliable(as a measure of how well a voting or decision-making system works)
    Trustworthy as a way of finding out what's true; likely to give you accurate information or correct answers.
    divine sources(referring to where religious moral guidance comes from)
    God or religious texts and authorities that believers think communicate truth from a higher power.
    ground obligations(asking whether religious testimony can be the real basis for why we must do something)
    To serve as the foundation or reason that actually creates duties or responsibilities for us.
    moral testimony(epistemology of moral knowledge and understanding)
    Deferring to others about moral issues, such as whether eating meat is morally wrong
    normative sufficiency

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    (asking whether revelation provides adequate moral guidance)
    Having enough content or detail to actually guide how people should behave; being complete enough to create real moral rules.
    revelation(Crescas's epistemology; contrasted with philosophical inquiry)
    God's disclosure of true beliefs to human beings that human speculation and philosophy alone cannot discover.
    the 'too few' objection(a specific argument against using divine sources for moral guidance)
    A criticism that says there's not enough religious revelation (not enough guidance from God) to tell us how to live morally.

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