The fine-tuning argument: the Bayesian version
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The fine-tuning argument: the Bayesian version
This paper considers the Bayesian form of the fine-tuning argument as advanced by Richard Swinburne. An expository section aims to identify the precise character of the argument, and three lines of objection are then advanced. The first of these holds that there is an inconsistency in Swinburne’s procedure, the second that his argument has an unacceptable dependence on an objectivist theory of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Religious Studies
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0034-4125,1469-901X
DOI: 10.1017/s0034412502006212