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Is Knowledge of God's Existence Properly Basic?

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Is Knowledge of God's Existence Properly Basic?
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RE: Is Knowledge of God's Existence Properly Basic?
September 17, 2013 at 12:57 pm (This post was last modified: September 17, 2013 at 12:58 pm by Angrboda.)



Alvin Plantinga is, historically, one of the major proponents of this view. There is a good explanation and analysis of Plantinga's view in an essay by Richard Gale in The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, which, I am not going to quote due to length and it being about a third of the essay's entire content. I'm short of time at the moment, but I will look later to see if I can excerpt or summarize some. I would suggest reading the essay yourself, and, secondarily, examining the literature surrounding Plantinga's arguments on the matter.

I find foundationalism personally repugnant, so I don't tend to give foundationalist arguments much of a hearing.
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RE: Is Knowledge of God's Existence Properly Basic? - by Angrboda - September 17, 2013 at 12:57 pm
RE: Is Knowledge of God's Existence Properly Basic? - by Zone - September 17, 2013 at 2:33 pm

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