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    Challenges→The equiprobability-principle approach to the inductive step in the argument from evil is superior to alternative accounts.

    Wykstra and other skeptical theists argue that human cognitive access to the full range of divine goods and reasons is systematically limited, undermining any probability assignment over that space.

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    Cognitive access(as something humans lack regarding God's reasons)
    The ability of your mind to reach, understand, or be aware of something; having the mental capacity to grasp an idea.
    Divine goods(as the types of things humans may not fully understand)
    Valuable things or purposes that come from God—the good outcomes or reasons God might have for doing things.
    Probability assignment(as describing our ability to measure confidence about God's reasons)
    Estimating the likelihood or chances that something is true; assigning numbers to show how confident we are about different possibilities.
    Systematically limited(as describing how human understanding is fundamentally constrained)
    Blocked or restricted in a consistent, built-in way (not just occasionally, but as a fundamental feature of how human minds work).

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    Wykstra(as a philosopher name and key figure in this debate)
    Stephen Wykstra is a philosopher who developed arguments about why God's reasons for allowing suffering might be beyond human understanding, similar to how a parent might do things a young child can't fully comprehend.
    skeptical theism(Applied both to the problem of evil and to the argument from nonbelief)
    A response strategy (originating in the problem of evil literature) that appeals to the limits of human knowledge about God's reasons, used to undercut evidential arguments against theism; the author notes it is 'badly named'

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