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    [doi] => 10.24204/ejpr.v9i1.1864
    [datePublished] => 2017-05-03
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Skeptheism: Is Knowledge of God’s Existence Possible?

Moti
Florida Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v9i1.1864

Abstract

In this paper, I sketch an argument for the view that we cannot know (or have good reasons to believe) that God exists. Some call this view “strong agnosticism” but I prefer the term “skeptheism” in order to clearly distinguish between two distinct epistemic attitudes with respect to the existence of God, namely, agnosticism and skepticism. For the skeptheist, we cannot know (or have good reasons to believe) that God exists, since there can be neither conceptual (a priori) nor empirical (a posteriori) evidence for the existence of God.

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