♣ Five of Clubs
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The Neglected Argument for the Reality of God
Charles Sanders Peirce
A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God
ConjecturalConcludes what we are warranted in believing or doing.
- Argument form
- Abductive inference (retroduction: the hypothesis that instinctive reason lights on is plausible)
- Concludes to
- Hypothesis plausible (the hypothesis of a Creator is plausible in the highest degree)
- Premise ground
- Epistemic (instinctive reason has lit on truth oftener than chance allows; its confidence is a sign of truth)
- Modal strength
- None (warrant for belief)
- What it licenses
- Period
- Twentieth Century (1908)
- Tradition
- Pragmatist
Further reading
- Source text, public domain
A Neglected Argument for the Reality of Godhibbertjournal07londuoft.pdf - A scholarly account
Read an exposition of the argument - A principal objection
Read the objection in full
This formulation is ours, composed from the primary source and compressed to fit the card; the argument admits of other statements. Objections have been made to every argument in the deck; where one is linked above, it is chosen by us, not written by us.
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