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At the outset of this study I noted that there were to be three themes, one concerned with the methodology of justification, one concerned with the concept of God, one with assessing actual theistic truth-claims. Chapter 8 marked the close of the second theme, Chapter 9 virtually the close of the first. It remains to round off the third. Is the conclusion to be that belief in the existence of God is after all warranted, or the contrary, or that judgement should be suspended, or some other alternative? For a decision about this has hitherto carefully been avoided.
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Notes
T. Langan, ‘Commentary’ on Fr N. Clarke’s paper in E. H. Madden, R. Handy and M. Farber (eds.), The Idea of God: Philosophical Perspectives ( Springfield, Ill.: Charles Thomas, 1968 ) p. 36.
K. Walker, Meaning and Purpose ( London: Jonathan Cape, 1944 ) p. 98.
J. Jeans, The Mysterious Universe ( Cambridge Univ. Press, 1930 ) p. 3.
see A. Flew and R. W. Hepburn, ‘Problems of Perspective’, Plain View, VII (1955) 151–66; cf.
J. Wisdom, ‘Gods’, in his Philosophy and Psycho-Analysis (Oxford: Blackwell, 1957) pp. 159–63; cf.
F. Waismann, ‘How I See Philosophy’, in H. D. Lewis (ed.), Contemporary British Philosophy, Third Series (London: Allen & Unwin, 1924 ) pp. 480–1.
W. James, ‘The Will to Believe’, in The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1897) p. 11.
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Shepherd, J.J. (1975). The Existence of God. In: Experience, Inference and God. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02436-0_10
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