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God (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

The Problem With Setting Up a God

belief in god alongside say like faith and trust in other people as the sort of fact That will only come if you first believe in it. Maybe there's a kind of problem with setting something up as a god because you need to already believe in it in order to receive the evidence that This god exists. It might be literally impossible for something that convinced you to trust it and that it deserves to be treated as a god but that sometimes you just Grant that the conditions have been met anyway.

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