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Old 11-07-2007, 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Brian Bosse View Post
Hello BigHeavyQ,

I will try and make it more simple.

Reformed Epistemology

Reformed Epistemology seeks to justify someone's belief in God ...

I think an RE guy would take issue with your use of 'justify.' Indeed, one of the main projects of RE has been to try to get away from the idea that beliefs must be "justified" in order to have positive epistemic status.

I'd actually rephrase your claim to something like this:

Reformed Epistemology seeks to [show that] someone's belief in God (BiG) [is not irrational, and that BiG has positive epistemic status even if BiG is not based on propositional evidence in favor of BiG]...

Let me know what you think?
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