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    Challenges→An argument from moral facts alone to God's existence has limited force

    When a premise entails a conclusion as a condition of its own coherence, the resulting argument is not weak but analytically compelling.

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    • 1.Logical entailment means the conclusion is already implicit in the premise's meaning, making rejection self-contradictory.
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    • 2.Arguments deriving conclusions from internal logical necessity possess greater certainty than those depending on external empirical support.
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    • 3.Coherence is a fundamental criterion of rational justification; premises that require their conclusions maintain rational standards.
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    • 1.Analytical necessity doesn't guarantee truth about reality; a premise can be internally coherent yet factually false or irrelevant.
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    • 2.Many analytically valid arguments are trivial tautologies (A=A) that add no substantive knowledge despite logical compulsion.
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    • 3.Strength of argument should reflect both logical form and informational content; pure coherence conditions lack the latter.
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