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Other authors (e.g., Levi, Maher, Kaplan) propose principles of rational acceptance as part of accounts of when it is rational to accept a statement as true, not merely to regard it as probable.
But since it is rational to accept their central premise, they do show that it is rational to accept that conclusion" (Plantinga 1974, 221).
Similarly, it is just a mistake for a theist to say: "Since it is rational to accept the premise (and the argument is valid), this argument shows that it is rational to accept the conclusion of the argument".
Sometimes Wright does not seem to appeal to a dominance argument to make his case that it is rational to accept a presupposition.
If, for example, I doubt that it is rational to accept the claim that God exists, then you can be quite sure that I will doubt that it is rational to accept the claim that either 2+2=5 or God exists.
Whilst the question of the conditions under which it is rational to accept something is a moot one, it is commonly agreed that, as Hume put it, the wise person "proportions his beliefs to the evidence" (1955, p. 118).
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These intuitions consist of judgments of the rationality of certain explicit cases, (e.g., "it was rational to accept Newtonian mechanics and to reject Aristotelian mechanics by, say, 1800", and "it was irrational after 1830 to accept the biblical chronology as a literal account of earth history").
To be entitled to accept, or trust, some presupposition is for it to be rational to accept or trust it, though this is supposed to be different from being justified in believing it.
For example, it is often suggested that it could not possibly be rational to accept a contradiction.
There is no generally accepted account of when it is rational to maintain rigid initial conditional probabilities and when it is not.
It is rational to hypothesise similar benefits in cardiopulmonary bypass.
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