PHL-206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Agnosticism, Consistency, Theism
27 Sep 2016
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Clifford: he wrote the ethics of belief , his overall argument. Argued that it is immortal to believe anything without suf cient evidence: believes its only rational when. One has suf cient evidence to believe something. 3 options: example, belief that proposition god exists . Belief that god does not exist (atheist) denying. Suspension, belief or withholding belief, belief neither that god exists nor that he does not exist. (agnostic) It is morally wrong, always, everywhere and for anyone to believe anything whatsoever upon insuf cient evidence. Conclusion: only rational/moral thing is to suspend something (be agnostic) if you don"t have suf cient evidence. When does one have suf cient evidence: issue of too strong or too weak. One option is to defeat suf cient evidence as being able to defeat any possible doubt (way too strong: would be unreasonable to believe scienti c theories.
