Can We Believe Without Sufficient Evidence? The James/Clifford
... This is classical foundationalism, based in Descartes and Locke. However, once the proposition God exists, or some other that necessarily implies it, it isn’t self-evident, incorrigible or ‘evident to the senses’, it is not properly basic, demanding evidence for its justification. In the absence of ...
... This is classical foundationalism, based in Descartes and Locke. However, once the proposition God exists, or some other that necessarily implies it, it isn’t self-evident, incorrigible or ‘evident to the senses’, it is not properly basic, demanding evidence for its justification. In the absence of ...
The Rationalist - Cengage Learning
... Once Descartes is assured of the his own existence and that of God’s, everything else falls into place. The world is roughly as he perceives it, since God cannot be an evil genius and be the infinitely perfect being Descartes has in mind. Also, the mind and the body are two distinct things, since th ...
... Once Descartes is assured of the his own existence and that of God’s, everything else falls into place. The world is roughly as he perceives it, since God cannot be an evil genius and be the infinitely perfect being Descartes has in mind. Also, the mind and the body are two distinct things, since th ...
The Philosophy of Don Hasdai Crescas: Chapter II Meyer Waxman
... that there must be a cause which is necessary of existence by itself. ' This conception ', says Kuno Fischer, ' which is put a t the beginning of his philosophy, supports the whole system.' 70 Taking his first definition, ' By that which is self-caused, I rnean that of which the essence involves esi ...
... that there must be a cause which is necessary of existence by itself. ' This conception ', says Kuno Fischer, ' which is put a t the beginning of his philosophy, supports the whole system.' 70 Taking his first definition, ' By that which is self-caused, I rnean that of which the essence involves esi ...
Argument - University of Warwick
... Same sex-couples can’t have children.” (one of the standard arguments against gay-marriage) ...
... Same sex-couples can’t have children.” (one of the standard arguments against gay-marriage) ...
The different meanings of `being` according to Aristotle and
... uram (on kata phys in). It is necessary to insist, though, that the application of these four criteria of classification does not fence off certain meanings of being that should be completely independent the one from the other. According to the order put forward, one goes from the least basic to the ...
... uram (on kata phys in). It is necessary to insist, though, that the application of these four criteria of classification does not fence off certain meanings of being that should be completely independent the one from the other. According to the order put forward, one goes from the least basic to the ...
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... contradiction is not subsequent to God. If one should say that logic is dependent on God’s thinking, it is dependent only in the sense that it is the characteristic of God’s thinking. It is not subsequent temporally, for God is eternal and there never was a time when God existed without thinking log ...
... contradiction is not subsequent to God. If one should say that logic is dependent on God’s thinking, it is dependent only in the sense that it is the characteristic of God’s thinking. It is not subsequent temporally, for God is eternal and there never was a time when God existed without thinking log ...
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... contradiction is not subsequent to God. If one should say that logic is dependent on God’s thinking, it is dependent only in the sense that it is the characteristic of God’s thinking. It is not subsequent temporarlly, for God is eternal and there never was a time when God existed without thinking lo ...
... contradiction is not subsequent to God. If one should say that logic is dependent on God’s thinking, it is dependent only in the sense that it is the characteristic of God’s thinking. It is not subsequent temporarlly, for God is eternal and there never was a time when God existed without thinking lo ...
Argument Mapping and Teaching Critical Thinking
... [edit] Types of diagramming software User-generated diagrams. As computer users seek to represent visual information, such as a flowchart, tools such as Schematic, SmartDraw, Dia, OmniGraffle, Microsoft Visio, Inspiration, ConceptDraw 7, allow them to express the information in the form of a diagram ...
... [edit] Types of diagramming software User-generated diagrams. As computer users seek to represent visual information, such as a flowchart, tools such as Schematic, SmartDraw, Dia, OmniGraffle, Microsoft Visio, Inspiration, ConceptDraw 7, allow them to express the information in the form of a diagram ...
The Epistemological Objection to Divine Command
... claim that if morality had its basis in God, then people who do not believe in God would not know right from wrong. But surely there are plenty of non-believers who do know right from wrong (even if, like believers, they 1 Contrary to rare allegations in the literature, no current version of divine ...
... claim that if morality had its basis in God, then people who do not believe in God would not know right from wrong. But surely there are plenty of non-believers who do know right from wrong (even if, like believers, they 1 Contrary to rare allegations in the literature, no current version of divine ...
Kazantzakis` Making of God: A Study in Literature and Philosophy
... drawal from everything human, search for salvation in a final cutting off even ...
... drawal from everything human, search for salvation in a final cutting off even ...
The idea of God in Spinoza`s philosophy
... uncreated, conceived by himself, infinite and his nature is being. God is immanent cause (the effect stays in the object), free cause (obey to the necessity of his own nature), cause by himself (determined by nothing else to exist). God is the initial and fundamental cause, the origin and the unifyi ...
... uncreated, conceived by himself, infinite and his nature is being. God is immanent cause (the effect stays in the object), free cause (obey to the necessity of his own nature), cause by himself (determined by nothing else to exist). God is the initial and fundamental cause, the origin and the unifyi ...
PDF only - at www.arxiv.org.
... considers “being” as the first we grasp9: that is, before knowing that it is (say) a tree, or that it is in that place, or that it is good for us, we know that it “is”. Fr ...
... considers “being” as the first we grasp9: that is, before knowing that it is (say) a tree, or that it is in that place, or that it is good for us, we know that it “is”. Fr ...
Be Wary of Ware: A Reply to Bruce Ware
... No theological position is immune to question or free from problems. I admit that open theism has questions that we have yet to answer and areas that need further development. Ware’s paper brings out a few of these, and I appreciate his thinking on these points. On the other hand, several of Ware’s ...
... No theological position is immune to question or free from problems. I admit that open theism has questions that we have yet to answer and areas that need further development. Ware’s paper brings out a few of these, and I appreciate his thinking on these points. On the other hand, several of Ware’s ...
Stanisław Judycki
... that belong to some object but this object does not need to be susceptible to any moral or aesthetic assessment. In every-day life it very often happens that we are talking about objects or things more or less perfect, which depends on how we assess the degree of realization of their potentialities. ...
... that belong to some object but this object does not need to be susceptible to any moral or aesthetic assessment. In every-day life it very often happens that we are talking about objects or things more or less perfect, which depends on how we assess the degree of realization of their potentialities. ...
Efforts to Explain all Existence
... (3x)(Fx v ~Fx) on the grounds that any calculus of predicates based on it 'disagrees with the possibility that the universe may be empty'.1 But was von Wright wrong? I think not. Bergson might have a valid point were he stretching the idea of 'there existing something' until it covered the 'existenc ...
... (3x)(Fx v ~Fx) on the grounds that any calculus of predicates based on it 'disagrees with the possibility that the universe may be empty'.1 But was von Wright wrong? I think not. Bergson might have a valid point were he stretching the idea of 'there existing something' until it covered the 'existenc ...
The Jewish Kalam
... IN THEIR OWN LITERATURE, written in Hebrew or Aramaic or in a mixture of both, the Jews who came under Muslim rule in the seventh century had no philosophic works corresponding to the philosophic writings of the Church Fathers possessed by the Christianswho came under Muslim rule at the same time. T ...
... IN THEIR OWN LITERATURE, written in Hebrew or Aramaic or in a mixture of both, the Jews who came under Muslim rule in the seventh century had no philosophic works corresponding to the philosophic writings of the Church Fathers possessed by the Christianswho came under Muslim rule at the same time. T ...
Kant`s Critique of the Ontological Argument: FAIL
... and second, that whatever is conceptually necessary is logically necessary. Since the concept of God, unlike that of a square circle or something older than itself, is apparently conceivable without contradiction, the proponent of the argument takes it to be the case that God, unlike a square circl ...
... and second, that whatever is conceptually necessary is logically necessary. Since the concept of God, unlike that of a square circle or something older than itself, is apparently conceivable without contradiction, the proponent of the argument takes it to be the case that God, unlike a square circl ...
Pantheism in Wordsworth: A Study from the Perspective of Islam
... Pantheism in Christianity Naturally many may believe that the very idea of Wordsworth’s Pantheism is the idea of Christianity. But Christian idea of Pantheism that Wordsworth holds derives from two gospel roots. The first one is St Paul, as he states: “For in him we live, and move, and have our bein ...
... Pantheism in Christianity Naturally many may believe that the very idea of Wordsworth’s Pantheism is the idea of Christianity. But Christian idea of Pantheism that Wordsworth holds derives from two gospel roots. The first one is St Paul, as he states: “For in him we live, and move, and have our bein ...
Probably - Scholarship at UWindsor
... ABSTRACT: In two recent essays (Ennis, 2001, in press) I have offered and refined an approach to argument appraisal that, instead of classifying an argument before appraising it, bypasses classification (because that process has fatal flaws) and successively applies sets of argument standards. (An e ...
... ABSTRACT: In two recent essays (Ennis, 2001, in press) I have offered and refined an approach to argument appraisal that, instead of classifying an argument before appraising it, bypasses classification (because that process has fatal flaws) and successively applies sets of argument standards. (An e ...
Aquinas on Eternity, Tense, and Temporal Becoming
... omniscient “single glance” and omnipotent power are present to all times, with no ontological distinction between them, yet only the present is actual. And yet, Aquinas also seems to endorse temporal becoming in quotes 1 and 4 above. For example, part of quote 1 reads “although contingent things bec ...
... omniscient “single glance” and omnipotent power are present to all times, with no ontological distinction between them, yet only the present is actual. And yet, Aquinas also seems to endorse temporal becoming in quotes 1 and 4 above. For example, part of quote 1 reads “although contingent things bec ...
On validity and soundness
... Uncertain: To determine the soundness of this argument, we'd need to hear further arguments in favor of the individual premises. That's why arguments end up being so important in philosophy! ...
... Uncertain: To determine the soundness of this argument, we'd need to hear further arguments in favor of the individual premises. That's why arguments end up being so important in philosophy! ...
Burrell article
... could easily essay a functional definition of both "ordered" states, of course, as "being able to find what one wants," yet the skills involved in one search might escape the other, so any definition meant to embrace diverse analogous uses will itself contain analogous terms, or in this case, practi ...
... could easily essay a functional definition of both "ordered" states, of course, as "being able to find what one wants," yet the skills involved in one search might escape the other, so any definition meant to embrace diverse analogous uses will itself contain analogous terms, or in this case, practi ...
PDF, 120kb - Early Modern Texts
... are perfectly alike. And this seems to have led him to another of his grand principles, which he calls the identity of indiscernibles—·the thesis that if x is in every way exactly like y then x is y, or that two things cannot be exactly alike in every way·. When the principle of sufficient reason ha ...
... are perfectly alike. And this seems to have led him to another of his grand principles, which he calls the identity of indiscernibles—·the thesis that if x is in every way exactly like y then x is y, or that two things cannot be exactly alike in every way·. When the principle of sufficient reason ha ...
Socratic Method.
... We should always be able to recognize when analyzing an argument what we want to believe and be sure that our desires are not overriding our critical thinking and making us come to conclusions simply because of what “we want to believe.” ...
... We should always be able to recognize when analyzing an argument what we want to believe and be sure that our desires are not overriding our critical thinking and making us come to conclusions simply because of what “we want to believe.” ...
philosophy, god, and aquinas
... me. In this one case, I am not fundamental to my act, but an act is fundamental to me. In Latin, Aquinas refers to a thing’s act of existence as esse and as actus essendi. Existential act characterizes Aquinas’ metaphysical understanding of being as being, ens inquantum ens. Throughout his career Aq ...
... me. In this one case, I am not fundamental to my act, but an act is fundamental to me. In Latin, Aquinas refers to a thing’s act of existence as esse and as actus essendi. Existential act characterizes Aquinas’ metaphysical understanding of being as being, ens inquantum ens. Throughout his career Aq ...