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    The space of possible divine reasons for permitting evil ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The equiprobability-principle approach to the inductive step in the argument from evil is superior to alternative accounts.

    The space of possible divine reasons for permitting evil is plausibly infinite and lacks a natural partition, making any equiprobability assignment arbitrary.

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    • 1.Divine reasons span infinite logical space: soul-making, greater goods, free will, divine self-limitation, and countless unforeseen purposes.
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    • 2.Without natural boundaries, any finite partition of reasons appears stipulated rather than discovered, making equiprobability unmotivated.
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    • 3.We lack independent access to divine cognition, so we cannot justify weighting some reasons over others non-arbitrarily.
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    • 1.Practical reasoning routinely assigns probabilities in infinite spaces (e.g., physics) without requiring exhaustive enumeration or natural partitions.
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    • 2.The claim conflates epistemic difficulty with logical arbitrariness; genuine ignorance doesn't entail that all assignments are equally unjustified.
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    • 3.Structural constraints—theodicy must explain actual evil's patterns—do provide natural partitions even if the full space is infinite.
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