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    Supports→If the ontological argument were sound, it would provide a rather decisive refutation of the argument from evil.

    If it is necessary that such a being exists, then the proposition that God does not exist must have probability zero on any body of evidence whatever.

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    One way of supporting the latter claim is by introducing the idea of logical probability, where logical probability is a measure of the extent to which one proposition supports another (Carnap, 1962, 19–51, esp. 43–7), and then arguing (Tooley, 1977, 690–3, and 1987, 129–37) that when one is dealing with an accidental generalization, the probability that the regularity in question will obtain gets closer and closer to zero, without limit, as the number of potential instances gets larger and larger, and that this is so regardless of how large one’s evidence base is. Is it impossible, then, to j...

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