If evidentialism permits belief under symmetry, it must specify non-evidential criteria for choosing between options, which risks abandoning evidentialism's foundational constraint.

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Non-evidential criteria(as contrasted with evidence-based decision-making): Reasons or rules for making a choice that are NOT based on evidence or logical reasons—like personal preference, gut feeling, or arbitrary rules.
Symmetry (in philosophy)(epistemology and decision-making): A situation where two or more options or beliefs are equally supported by the available evidence, making it impossible to rationally prefer one over the other.
epistemology(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
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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