By Nicholas Everitt
During this ebook, Nicholas Everitt reconsiders all the significant arguments for proving the life of God and examines the position that cause and data play within the debate.
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Such a crazy belief might be held as basic by a given person, that is to say they do not in fact support that belief by inferring it from any other beliefs that they hold. But they would be open to epistemic criticism for holding the belief – it would not be a properly basic belief. What, then, distinguishes a belief in God and a belief in the Great Pumpkin? Why is one but not the other properly basic? Plantinga admits that he cannot produce a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for proper basicality; and while admitting that this is a gap in his overall position, he denies that it is a serious objection.
We can now see that even if Plantinga is right in thinking that a believer can be ‘entirely right, rational, reasonable, and proper to believe in God without any evidence or argument at all’ (op. cit. p. 103), this is beside the point. That conclusion can indeed be a comfort to the believer, in assuring her that she is free from reproach in holding on to her theism even though she cannot offer any supporting argument or evidence. ’. In other words, they want to focus not on the degree of conscientiousness of this or that believer, but on the truth of the matter about God’s existence.
But there is a second and quite different sense which we could give to this cluster of terms, which I will call the ‘truth-indicator’ sense. ’ is not asking about me and my epistemic procedures, it is asking whether there are any pointers to the truth of what I believe. Whereas the duty sense is focused on my believing what I believe, the truth-indicator sense is focused on what I believe. There can of course be a connection between them. If my epistemic procedures have all been properly followed, then that fact could be a good indicator that the belief that I end up with is true.