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    A Pragmatic Attempt to Undermine the Evil-God Challenge

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    Roupe, Zachary Thomas
    Abstract
    In my project, I propose that pragmatic reasoning for believing in a good god does not fall prey to the Evil God challenge. The “Evil God challenge” is a philosophical argument that holds that the belief in favor of a supremely good god can be equally mirrored or parodied for the existence of a supremely evil god. The challenge does this by providing evidence and counter arguments for why an evil god is just as plausible as a good god. I contend that while the Evil God Challenge holds strong in its epistemic reasoning based approach, a pragmatic reasoning based approach will not allow the EGC challenge the same success.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/9218
    Subject
    philosophy of religion, evil-god challenge, pascal's wager
    Date
    2021-05-28
    Citation:
    APA:
    Roupe, Zachary Thomas. (May 2021). A Pragmatic Attempt to Undermine the Evil-God Challenge (Honors Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship. (http://hdl.handle.net/10342/9218.)

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    Roupe, Zachary Thomas. A Pragmatic Attempt to Undermine the Evil-God Challenge. Honors Thesis. East Carolina University, May 2021. The Scholarship. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/9218. August 19, 2022.
    Chicago:
    Roupe, Zachary Thomas, “A Pragmatic Attempt to Undermine the Evil-God Challenge” (Honors Thesis., East Carolina University, May 2021).
    AMA:
    Roupe, Zachary Thomas. A Pragmatic Attempt to Undermine the Evil-God Challenge [Honors Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University; May 2021.
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