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    It is not the case that Knowledge of God rooted in moral experience does not require a moral argument

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    • 1.Moral experience requires interpretive frameworks to identify its object as 'God' rather than conscience, duty, or social pressure.
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    • 2.Any interpretive framework that identifies moral experience as experience of God constitutes an implicit argument with suppressed premises.
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    • 3.Therefore, the claim that such knowledge is argument-free conflates psychological immediacy with epistemic independence from inference.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Kant's critical epistemology establishes that raw experience underdetermines its own conceptual content without prior categorical organization.
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    • 2.The specific content 'moral lawgiver' or 'divine ground of obligation' is a theoretical posit, not a brute datum of moral phenomenology.
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    • 3.Alston's own Reformed epistemology concedes that doxastic practices require communal formation, implying argument-laden background conditions.
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    • 1.Moral experience can provide direct awareness of God
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    • 2.Direct experiential knowledge does not require argumentative justification
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