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445Religion and Arguments from SilenceEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 10 (3): 155-169. 2018.Arguments from Silence have been used many times in attempts to discredit the foundations of religions. In this project, I demonstrate how one might judge the epistemic value of such arguments. To begin, I lay out for examination a specific argument from silence given by Walter Richard Cassels in his work Supernatural Religion. I then discuss a recently developed Bayesian approach for dealing with arguments from silence. Finally, using Cassels’s work and the work of some of the critics who repli…Read more
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Social Epistemology |
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