Gwiazda on the Bayesian Argument for God |
| |
Authors: | Richard Swinburne |
| |
Affiliation: | (1) Oriel College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
| |
Abstract: | Jeremy Gwiazda made two criticisms of my formulation in terms of Bayes’s theorem of my probabilistic argument for the existence of God. The first criticism depends on his assumption that I claim that the intrinsic probabilities of all propositions depend almost entirely on their simplicity; however, my claim is that that holds only insofar as those propositions are explanatory hypotheses. The second criticism depends on a claim that the intrinsic probabilities of exclusive and exhaustive explanatory hypotheses of a phenomenon must sum to 1; however it is only those probabilities plus the intrinsic probability of the non-occurrence of the phenomenon which must sum to 1. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 SpringerLink 等数据库收录! |
|