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Record W2587322368 · doi:10.3138/tjt.2016-0019

God's Moral Obligation to Hide

2017· article· en· W2587322368 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
James Gerrie

Bibliographic record

VenueToronto Journal of Theology · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicTheology and Philosophy of Evil
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReductio ad absurdumPhilosophyMoral obligationArgument (complex analysis)EpistemologyObligationNatural (archaeology)Natural lawLawMetaphysics

Abstract

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The following is a response to J.L. Schellenberg's argument from the fact of divine hiddenness for unbelief in God. If God is capable of making a vast number of distinct universes, then God might be justified in allowing universes to exist that are fundamentally natural in how they can appear to a great many sentient beings in those universes. A reductio ad absurdum argument is presented, based on the assumption of the moral principle that it is wrong for God, or anyone else, to allow universes to exist that are ambiguous in regard to the question of whether they are naturally or divinely originated. Adopting such a principle implies that one must either contradictorily assert that we cannot know God's existence, or that we have a moral obligation to prevent the continuation of sentient life in this universe by any ethical means available.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.011
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.026

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.011
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0060.026
Scholarly communication0.0050.006
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0070.011
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.049
GPT teacher head0.281
Teacher spread0.232 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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