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- adjective philosophy Of or supporting evidentialism, the doctrine that
evidence is of primary importance in questions of belief - noun philosophy One who supports or argues for evidentialism
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Examples
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It was a debate about atheism between Christopher Hitchens and Dr. William Lane Craig, described in this article as "an 'evidentialist' in that he argues for the existence of God based on evidence not presupposition."
InstaPunk 2009
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However, for those overly evidentialist sorts that find any speculation without evidence too distasteful to even express, you may be spared reading further.
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However, for those overly evidentialist sorts that find any speculation without evidence too distasteful to even express, you may be spared reading further.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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When one lives out certain practices -- regular time for reflection/meditation/prayer; living constructively within a community of people, many of whom are very different politically and demographically; giving one's time and money and resources to move things in a better direction -- this seems to me to be much more related to most believers' lives than hammering out evidentialist implications of, say, the Nicene creed.
Does Being Exist? James F. McGrath 2008
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For example, it wouldn't be true to the spirit of reliabilism if it merely restated an evidentialist theory in a roundabout way.
Reliabilism Goldman, Alvin 2008
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An evidentialist account of justification isn't admissible unless “evidence” is explainable in non-justificational terms.
Reliabilism Goldman, Alvin 2008
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But an evidentialist owes us a story about which process types qualify as justification-conferring basing relations and which ones don't.
Reliabilism Goldman, Alvin 2008
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Christianity has a long history of evidentialist apologetics an apologetic is a defense of something.
Exploring Our Matrix - And Why Intelligent Design Forced Me To Leave The Church Christopher O'Brien 2007
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I didn't see much that I thought was interesting, but I would recommend the discussion between Clayton and Lewis at "Hesperus/Phosphorus": Why I am an evidentialist.
Additional Links 2006
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Let us look at the issue from the evidentialist point of view.
Epistemology Steup, Matthias 2005
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