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    Challenges→The probability that there is an omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect person must be very low indeed.

    The inference from 'no known rightmaking property justifies this suffering' to 'no rightmaking property justifies this suffering' commits the fallacy of epistemic hubris, as Wykstra's CORNEA principle demonstrates.

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    CORNEA principle(Wykstra's main argument)
    A rule of logic that says we shouldn't claim something is definitely true unless we have good access to all the information needed to judge it—the acronym stands for 'Cognitive Relative Epistemic Noseeum'.
    Epistemic hubris(as used in epistemology and theology)
    Overconfidence in what you know or can know; the arrogant assumption that because you haven't found something, it doesn't exist.
    Rightmaking property(as used in normative ethics)
    A feature or characteristic of an action that makes it morally right or good—for instance, 'helping someone in need' might be a rightmaking property of an action.
    Wykstra, William(as a philosopher referenced in debates about evil and suffering)
    A contemporary Christian philosopher who developed the CORNEA principle to argue that we shouldn't reject God's existence just because we can't see God's reasons for permitting evil and suffering in the world.

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    fallacy(Whately's definition, Elements of Logic, Bk. III, intro.)
    Any unsound mode of arguing which appears to demand conviction and to be decisive of the question at hand, when in fairness it is not
    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

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