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    Supports→The likelihood ratio of naked statistical evidence is significantly greater than one, undermining the argument that naked statistical evidence has no evidential value.

    If statistical evidence constrains the plausibility space of competing hypotheses, it performs a discriminating evidential function that is definitionally incompatible with having no evidential value.

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    Key Terms

    Competing hypotheses(other beliefs being compared to theism)
    Different possible explanations for the same thing. For instance, 'God created the universe' and 'the universe emerged from physics alone' are competing hypotheses.
    Constrains(describing how rational identity affects choice)
    Limits or restricts; in this case, your rational identity sets boundaries on what choices are available to you.
    Definitionally incompatible(as used in logic and philosophy)
    Impossible to exist together based on how the terms are actually defined; like how something cannot be both 'married' and 'single' at the same time.
    Discriminating(as used in logic and philosophy of science)
    In this context, it means distinguishing between or separating one thing from another; evidence 'discriminates' when it favors one hypothesis over another.

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    Evidential function(contrasting with how modern philosophy uses thought experiments)
    The role something plays in providing proof or support for an argument or claim.
    Evidential value(as used in epistemology)
    How much weight or importance evidence has in helping us figure out whether something is true.
    Plausibility space(as used in philosophy of science)
    The set of all possible explanations or ideas that could reasonably be true given what we know.
    Statistical evidence(as used in epistemology and philosophy of science)
    Information gathered from data and numbers that helps us figure out whether something is probably true or false.

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