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The Existence of God: Two New Proofs

Lawrence Crocker examines the logic of hope.

Hilary Putnam once gave a paper at Harvard entitled ‘The Problem of Induction’. In his opening remarks he revealed that it was not Hume’s problem of induction that he would address. He would not try to justify our belief that the sun will probably rise tomorrow. Instead Putnam was going to argue an interesting yet arcane issue involving mathematical induction. You may think that I have perpetrated a similar philosophical bait and switch when I confess that the last line of neither of my proofs is “Therefore God exists.

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