A few weeks ago the executive editor of the online magazine Salon paraphraseda Mormon scholar's suggestion that the Latter-day Saint faith “had never claimed that its outlandish theology was plausible … only that it was true.”
The passing reference to Latter-day Saint epistemology was proffered in service of a different point; but, it raises the question — how do Latter-day Saints know what they know?
Despite our friend at Salon's suggestion to the contrary, Latter-day Saints don't simply posit truth over plausibility.
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