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What properties must something have if it is to be an appropriate object of worship, and if it is to provide reason for thinking that there is a reasonable chance that the fundamental human desires just mentioned will be fulfilled?
If successful, the argument would provide reason for thinking there is at least one such being of extraordinary power responsible for the existence of the cosmos.
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Since the Mādhyamikas believe that all phenomena are empty, they owe it to their readers to provide reasons for thinking that that is a reasonable thing to believe.
However, Plantinga and Kripke provide reasons for thinking that none of these three assumptions survives scrutiny.
Definitional difficulties, though, do not in and of themselves provide reasons for thinking that a concept is morally irrelevant.
Let's say that a pragmatic argument provides strong support for theism just in case it provides reason for thinking that theism alone provides the benefit; and let's say that a pragmatic argument provides weak support for theism just in case it provides reason for thinking that theism is just one of several alternatives in providing the benefit.
This would provide reason for encouraging non-anthropocentric thinking, even to those who find the idea of non-anthropocentric intrinsic value hard to swallow.
The foregoing paragraphs offer reasons for thinking that these tempting lines of thought are erroneous.
Although controversial, the Basic Argument, if sound, would provide strong reason preferring Weak Evidentialism to Strong; and it would provide good reason for thinking that there are occasions in which it is permissible, both rationally and morally, to form beliefs based upon pragmatic reasons even in the absence of adequate evidence.
If successful, the teleological argument may provide some reason for thinking that the First Cause of the cosmological argument is purposive, while the ontological argument provides some reason for thinking that it makes sense to posit a being that has Divine attributes and necessarily exists.
But it does not provide any reason for thinking that Plato rejects the ideal that Socrates constructs in the Republic.
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