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- Title
FACING MECCA: ULTIMISM, RELIGIOUS SKEPTICISM, AND SCHELLENBERG'S "META- EVIDENTIAL CONDITION CONSTRAINING ASSENT.
- Authors
Wykstra, Stephen J.
- Abstract
Schellenberg's Wisdom to Doubt uses a "meta-evidential condition constraining assent" that I dub MECCA. On MECCA, my total current evidence E may be good evidence for H, yet not justify my believing H, due to nieta-evidential considerations giving me reason to doubt whether E is "representative" of the total evidence E* that exists. I argue that considerations of representativeness are implicit in judging that E is good evidence, rendering this description incoherent, and that Schellenberg's specific meta-evidence has less trumping power than he thinks.
- Publication
Philo, 2011, Vol 14, Issue 1, p85
- ISSN
1098-3570
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.5840/philo20111418