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Is it a Religious Belief that ‘God Exists’?

Norman Malcolm

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Abstract

I admire the strategic plan of Alston’s paper, and also the skill and thoroughness of his execution. I think his main results are entirely sound. I agree with his conclusion that even if it is a fact that ‘reason-irrelevant’ factors are sufficient to produce a belief in God’s existence, this could have little or no tendency to show that the belief is false, or probably false, or unworthy of serious acceptance. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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I admire the strategic plan of Alston’s paper, and also the skill and thoroughness of his execution. I think his main results are entirely sound. I agree with his conclusion that even if it is a fact that ‘reason-irrelevant’ factors are sufficient to produce a belief in God’s existence, this could have little or no tendency to show that the belief is false, or probably false, or unworthy of serious acceptance. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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I admire the strategic plan of Alston’s paper, and also the skill and thoroughness of his execution. I think his main results are entirely sound. I agree with his conclusion that even if it is a fact that ‘reason-irrelevant’ factors are sufficient to produce a belief in God’s existence, this could have little or no tendency to show that the belief is false, or probably false, or unworthy of serious acceptance. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Key concepts: Religious belief, False belief, Belief in God, Epistemology, Psychology, Social psychology, Philosophy, Plan (archaeology)

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