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    No other argument is better — Carmelics
    Topics/Philosophy of Religion/No other argument is better

    No other argument is better

    Arguments that no alternative argument surpasses the primary one

    65 ideas in this topic

    30 of 65 ideas have perspectives(46%)

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    A normative theory offering principles for evaluating analogical arguments is still needed, even if computational models successfully model analogy construction.

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    Einstein's approach is preferable to the Lorentz-Fitzgerald hypothesis

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    Golding's version of the Wager argument is not clearly more successful than Pascal's.

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    Kvanvig has no grounds for thinking that Fitch's conjunction does not designate rigidly

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    Mill's argument, though poorly framed, retains substantial force when understood on its own terms

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    Parfit's impersonal reformulation of contractualism is superior to Scanlon's original formulation for the purposes of the convergence argument.

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    The Roman numeral system is inferior to position systems for general arithmetic

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    The five lines of response can jointly justify the payoffs of a cultural evolutionary perspective.

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    The low priors argument addresses the question of which position is the correct default more sophisticatedly and promisingly than analogies to Santa Claus, flying spaghetti monsters, or Russell's teapot.

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    The objection that Norton's notion of argument is too vague is not the best objection against Norton

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    The original dilemma can be turned back on the interrogator

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    The platonist/fictionalist semantic theory is better than other semantic theories of mathematical discourse

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    The proponent wins the play.

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    The regress argument is not the best argument for the existence of foundational justification.

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    The theory of Turing machines is the most general theory of computation possible.

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    There is a strong (if defeasible) reason to suppose there is no further argument for the account of non-prudential value as consisting in the maximization of power

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    There is room for both computational and traditional philosophical models of analogical reasoning.

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    Williams' argument for internalism about reasons is stronger than the Classical Argument for internalism

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    Eternal conscious torment of the wicked vindicates God's majesty

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    If the above is true, then no further thought is necessary

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    No other argument has all of these goods

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    There are goods created by ECT

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    ECT indirectly glorifies God's grace

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    Eternal conscious torment (noun) is the only theory that uses eternal conscious torment (verb)

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    If something is the best possible Hell, it is the true Hell

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    Radner's conclusion that the appeal to simplicity is not one of the stronger arguments for seeing all things in God misunderstands Malebranche.

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    Rosmini's moral principle is supreme.

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    The cosmological argument does not provide a better account of the cosmos than concluding the cosmos lacks an ultimate account.

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    These goods are necessary for a true Hell

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    Glossary

    Flying spaghetti monster

    A modern joke example (similar to Russell's teapot) used to argue that you shouldn't have to disprove silly claims—the person making the claim should prove it's real.

    Prior/priors

    Your starting assumption about how likely something is to be true before you look at any evidence or reasons.

    Russell's teapot

    A famous example created by philosopher Bertrand Russell where he imagined an invisible teapot orbiting Mars to show why we can't prove something doesn't exist just because we can't see it.

    Santa Claus analogy

    A comparison used in arguments about belief: just like we stop believing in Santa without proof he's fake, we might not believe in things without evidence they exist.

    default position

    The belief one is justified in holding in the absence of or in the presence of ambiguous evidence — in this context, either atheism or theism as the starting presumption before evidence is weighed.

    low priors argument

    A probabilistic argument against omni-theism that contends source physicalism is many times more probable than omni-theism, making omni-theism very probably false

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    Truth & Knowledge13 sharedEternal Conscious Torment11 sharedPhilosophy of Language7 sharedAll sources support it6 sharedNatural Theology6 sharedSkepticism6 sharedConsequentialism4 sharedVirtue Ethics3 shared

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