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    Challenges→The fact that a competent evaluator finds first-order evidence to support God's existence is itself evidence that God exists.

    The move from 'a competent evaluator finds evidence E supports P' to 'E actually supports P' commits the psychologistic fallacy of substituting cognitive performance for logical entailment.

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    Competent evaluator(as used in epistemology and philosophy of religion)
    A person who has the knowledge, skills, and judgment needed to correctly assess and interpret evidence on a particular topic.
    Evidence(Distinguished from prior/intrinsic probability in the context of the low priors argument)
    Factors extrinsic to a hypothesis that raise or lower its probability
    Logical entailment(describing something that logically must follow from a premise)
    A conclusion that must be true if the starting statements are true—it's not just likely, but absolutely required by the rules of logic.
    cognitive performance(as used in epistemology)
    What the human brain actually does when thinking—like remembering, deciding, or judging something.
    psychologistic fallacy

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    A mistake in reasoning where you confuse what's happening in someone's mind with what's actually true about logic or reality.
    supports(as used in logic)
    Makes something more likely to be true or gives good reasons to believe it.

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