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    Supports→Omni-theism is no more probable intrinsically than aesthetic deism.

    Swinburne's inference from omniscience to benevolent action presupposes internalist moral realism, which is itself contested and cannot be assumed in prior probability assessments.

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    Contested(the status of whether this view is correct)
    Disputed or disagreed upon; there's no consensus that it's true.
    Internalist moral realism(as a philosophical position being debated)
    A theory saying that moral truths are real and objective facts, AND that knowing these facts automatically motivates you to act morally (knowing the right thing makes you want to do it).
    Prior probability(Used to argue that theism's low prior probability is not overcome by ambiguous or absent evidence)
    The intrinsic probability of a hypothesis before taking any evidence into account
    Swinburne(in philosophy of religion)
    Richard Swinburne, a famous British philosopher who wrote about God, religion, and the problem of evil—he argued that God's existence can be rationally defended despite the existence of evil in the world.

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    benevolent(in describing government systems)
    Kind, well-meaning, and genuinely wanting to help people.
    inference(Nyāya epistemology)
    A component of epistemology in Nyāya philosophy; a veritable inference yields knowledge about the world and must have premises that are themselves known
    omniscience(The passage tests omniscience against mathematical undecidability)
    The property of knowing everything; used here to probe whether divine knowledge extends to undecided mathematical propositions.

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