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The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism w/ Dr. Stephen Napier

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An Anxiety Therapy Case - You Have No Reason for Thinking That Your Cognitive Faculties Are Dysfunctional

Even if naturalism were true, you couldn't know that it was innrat no, be irrational. The only difference here is that it plies all my faculties. You have no reason for thinking that your cognitive faculties are oriented towards producing true belief given evolution plus naturalism. It's a very creative argument. And again, when you interpret it in the light of this idea of higher order evidence, and not focus on conditionalization and probability in something bad, it fits within a lot of mundane examples of where we have higher order evidence that oure cognitive faculties, or at least a segment of their functioning has gone.

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