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    Challenges→Pascal's God — conceived as absolutely perfect — should be assigned higher probability than conceptions of rival Gods.

    Rival Gods defined by fewer, mutually consistent attributes (e.g., Aristotle's Unmoved Mover) therefore carry higher probability by virtue of their coherence, not lower probability by virtue of their specificity.

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    Aristotle
    Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher who lived over 2,000 years ago and is one of the most influential thinkers in Western history. He studied nearly every subject—from animals and plants to politics and ethics—and developed practical ways of thinking that shaped how people understand the world. His ideas on logic, nature, and how to live a good life are still taught and debated today because he focused on observing the real world rather than just abstract theories.
    Mutually consistent attributes(as used in logic and metaphysics)
    Qualities or characteristics that don't contradict each other—they can all be true at the same time without creating logical problems.
    Rival Gods(as used in philosophy of religion)
    Different competing conceptions of God that philosophers propose and debate against each other.
    coherence(Applied uniformly by Bosanquet to both religious and non-religious truth claims.)
    The standard by which truth is assessed — a belief or system of beliefs is true insofar as it forms a consistent, internally unified whole.

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    probability(as used in mathematics and logic)
    A number between 0 and 1 that describes how likely something is to happen; 0.5 means 50% chance, 1 means certain, 0 means impossible.
    specificity(Criterion for assessing intrinsic probability)
    A property of claims whereby less specific claims have more ways of being true and are therefore more probable; the only uncontroversial criterion of intrinsic probability according to Le Poidevin
    unmoved mover(Aristotle's Physics 8; Fârâbî holds there are many such movers, none of which is identical with God)
    An eternal cause of motion that is itself not moved, posited by Aristotle as the cause of eternal circular motions in the heavens

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