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===Appeals to solipsism===
===Appeals to solipsism===
Perhaps the most interesting of the three categories is the ever increasing problem of appeals to solipsism.  The idea that we can't know everything (or anything, depending on how far the arguer wishes to take it), and thus we can never completely rule god out.  It constitutes a ‘god of the gaps’ argument.  However, this line of argument raises more questions than it solves if we take this assertion to its ultimate conclusion: i.e. from “we can't know everything,or that, “we can't know anything for certain,” yields “how can we claim to know anything about god?
Perhaps the most interesting of the three categories is the increasing problem of appeals to solipsism.  The idea that we can't know everything (or anything, depending on how far the arguer wishes to take it), and thus we can never completely rule god out.  It constitutes a 'god of the gaps' argument.  However, this line of argument would seem to create more questions than it solves.  If we take this assertion to its ultimate conclusion, i.e. that "''we can't know everything''," or that, "''we can't know anything for certain''," then how can we claim to know anything about god?
* [[What are your qualifications?]]
* [[What are your qualifications?]]
* [[God can't be defined]]
* [[God can't be defined]]
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