It Is Wrong, Everywhere, Always, for Anyone, to Believe Anything upon Insufficient Evidence

In Daniel Howard-Snyder & Jeff Jordan (eds.), Faith, Freedom, and Rationality: Philosophy of Religion Today. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 137-154 (1996)
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