A Bayesian Exploration of C.S. Lewis’s ‘Argument from Desire’
C.S. Lewis’s ‘Argument from Desire’ is best summed up by his famous line, ‘If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world’. In short, unfulfilled ‘seemingly transcendent desires’ point to fulfilment in an...
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2022
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Sophia
Year: 2022, Volume: 61, Issue: 4, Pages: 757-773 |
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