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    Supports→Indigenous African religions systematically invoke a Supreme Being (Olodumare, Nyame, Mulungu) whose moral order is discernible through communal wisdom and natural observation.

    Indigenous African epistemologies systematically privilege communal consensus and environmental observation as legitimate sources of moral knowledge, not individual revelation alone.

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    Communal consensus(as used in social and political philosophy)
    When most people in a community agree on something—the general agreement of the group.
    Indigenous African epistemologies(This phrase refers to the specific subject being discussed—how African communities have historically determined what's true and valuable)
    The traditional knowledge systems and ways of understanding truth that come from African peoples and cultures, developed over centuries within their own communities.
    Individual revelation(The statement contrasts this with communal consensus, suggesting African epistemologies don't rely only on individuals' personal insights)
    A personal insight or truth that comes to one person alone, often spiritual or intuitive, without needing agreement from others.
    Legitimate sources(The statement argues that communal consensus and observation are legitimate (equally valid) as sources of knowledge)

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    Ways of knowing or methods that are considered valid and worthy of respect as genuine ways to find truth.
    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
    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.
    moral knowledge(Used to argue that moral anti-realism precludes genuine moral knowledge)
    Knowledge of objective moral truths, which requires the existence of objective moral properties

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