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Even in this case, however, his style of writing was such that the proper formulation of the argument has become a main source of controversy.
This is why our formulation of the argument is so modest.
See the supplementary document An Alternative Formulation of the Argument 3.
As Turing notes, there is some slippage between "ought" and "will" in this formulation of the argument.
I would like to thank Edward Zalta, principal editor of The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, for suggesting (roughly) this formulation of the argument.
They divide the Platonic text in different lemmata or cited passages, discussing first the doctrine exposed in the particular section (pragmata, later called theoria), next commenting on the formulation of the argument (called lexis) [see Festugière 1963].
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Furthermore, our formulation of the arguments in the parlance of modern Bayesian decision theory might appear somewhat anachronistic.
See Noonan (2010) on the relationship between Lewis's and Sider's formulations of the argument.
How does this bear upon evidential formulations of the argument from evil?
But once one shifts to probabilistic formulations of the argument from evil, the situation is very different: details about concrete cases of evil may be evidentially crucial.
Given that the preceding observations are rather obvious ones, one might have expected that discussions of the argument from evil would have centered mainly upon concrete formulations of the argument.
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