E.g., you could check whether there’s anything of pragmatic relevance in ideas like the convertibility of transcendentals. Just ditching convertibility of transcendentals can easily imply a God that is not similar to the God of e.g. Aquinas, to a lesser extent Aristotle, to a lesser extent Leibniz. This doesn’t take much time and quickly rules out large portions of the “God” conceptspace. (Also, people who believe in vague “God”s (e.g. “God isn’t a person, God is the Goodness inherent in the structure of the universe”) are forced to refine their concepts; of course, most people think of God ideologically and so the questions most immediately relevant to them would be more sociological than metaphysical, for better or worse.)
(Presumably I disagree with Vladimir_Nesov about the value of thinking about the problem in such terms in the first place; I can only argue that most folks aren’t decision theorists and so must grasp at morality and eternity in other ways, and that I am on the side of epistemic humility.)
E.g., you could check whether there’s anything of pragmatic relevance in ideas like the convertibility of transcendentals. Just ditching convertibility of transcendentals can easily imply a God that is not similar to the God of e.g. Aquinas, to a lesser extent Aristotle, to a lesser extent Leibniz. This doesn’t take much time and quickly rules out large portions of the “God” conceptspace. (Also, people who believe in vague “God”s (e.g. “God isn’t a person, God is the Goodness inherent in the structure of the universe”) are forced to refine their concepts; of course, most people think of God ideologically and so the questions most immediately relevant to them would be more sociological than metaphysical, for better or worse.)
(Presumably I disagree with Vladimir_Nesov about the value of thinking about the problem in such terms in the first place; I can only argue that most folks aren’t decision theorists and so must grasp at morality and eternity in other ways, and that I am on the side of epistemic humility.)