Study Guide: René Descartes
... The new clearness and distinctness criterion cannot be used until Descartes has proven that clear and distinct ideas are guaranteed to be true. After all, it would seem possible to have a clear and distinct idea of something false. To show that the new criterion is reliable, Descartes will (a) prove ...
... The new clearness and distinctness criterion cannot be used until Descartes has proven that clear and distinct ideas are guaranteed to be true. After all, it would seem possible to have a clear and distinct idea of something false. To show that the new criterion is reliable, Descartes will (a) prove ...
Introduction to Philosophy
... Type 2 Counterexamples: Locke’s Room Example Being Free vs. Being Lucky ...
... Type 2 Counterexamples: Locke’s Room Example Being Free vs. Being Lucky ...
Universalist Imperialism
... Now, about the bible, what actually is it and why must we deal with it? Let me begin with two surviving Gnostic verses, Mark 4:11 and 12. All I show you refers to the English language, authorized King James Bible (KJV), for it is the most intricate hermetic or secret coding device since the Great Py ...
... Now, about the bible, what actually is it and why must we deal with it? Let me begin with two surviving Gnostic verses, Mark 4:11 and 12. All I show you refers to the English language, authorized King James Bible (KJV), for it is the most intricate hermetic or secret coding device since the Great Py ...
Theology of Technology
... Privacy • Is privacy just an historical anomaly? Didn’t we all used to live “in each other’s pockets” back in the day? • Privacy is critical to the proper formation of personal identity and the maintaining of personal boundaries. • The question is not so much “how much do others know” but “how much ...
... Privacy • Is privacy just an historical anomaly? Didn’t we all used to live “in each other’s pockets” back in the day? • Privacy is critical to the proper formation of personal identity and the maintaining of personal boundaries. • The question is not so much “how much do others know” but “how much ...
PowerPoint - Sugar Land Bible Church
... necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers, ...
... necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.” Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers, ...
Microsoft Word - Verificationismx
... larger number of throws. And this is always true, no matter how many times you roll the die. So a falsification principle that requires a meaningful statement to entail some decisive, refuting empirical experience is unacceptable. Many meaningful statements do not clearly entail an observation with ...
... larger number of throws. And this is always true, no matter how many times you roll the die. So a falsification principle that requires a meaningful statement to entail some decisive, refuting empirical experience is unacceptable. Many meaningful statements do not clearly entail an observation with ...
The Existence of God
... what basis? Anselm’s argument (an a priori argument; reductio argument; assume the opposite of what you trying to prove and so a self-contradiction occurs). God = that than which a greater cannot be conceived. Argument from Proslogion 2 by St. Anselm ...
... what basis? Anselm’s argument (an a priori argument; reductio argument; assume the opposite of what you trying to prove and so a self-contradiction occurs). God = that than which a greater cannot be conceived. Argument from Proslogion 2 by St. Anselm ...
FI Article -Integrating Faith and Learning
... Sometimes even interaction has been repressed in favor of indoctrination, as if prepackaged answers can satisfy inquiring minds. Students need rather to gain a realistic look at life and to discover for themselves the questions that confront us. They need to work their way painfully through the maze ...
... Sometimes even interaction has been repressed in favor of indoctrination, as if prepackaged answers can satisfy inquiring minds. Students need rather to gain a realistic look at life and to discover for themselves the questions that confront us. They need to work their way painfully through the maze ...
A1 Sample answer
... The Search for Meaning | A1 Sample answer Explain the concept of God in two of the three monotheistic ...
... The Search for Meaning | A1 Sample answer Explain the concept of God in two of the three monotheistic ...
Class #8 - 4/29/13
... seemed to be the last bastion of a ultimate support for the existence of God. Thus many theists to this day resist the Darwinian view which meanwhile has become the dominant scientific theory within Biology and has ...
... seemed to be the last bastion of a ultimate support for the existence of God. Thus many theists to this day resist the Darwinian view which meanwhile has become the dominant scientific theory within Biology and has ...
the gospel of god - First Presbyterian Church of Hospers PCA
... A. Have you heard the saying, “The apple And this is affirmed by our Lord. “42 Jesus said to doesn’t fall far from the tree”? This is not an them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, agricultural observation. Rather, it’s referring to the for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my ...
... A. Have you heard the saying, “The apple And this is affirmed by our Lord. “42 Jesus said to doesn’t fall far from the tree”? This is not an them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, agricultural observation. Rather, it’s referring to the for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my ...
Philosophy 120 Symbolic Logic I H. Hamner Hill
... logical consequence, the idea that some claim must necessarily follow from others. • Arguments are designed to show that one claim logically follows from others. • Logic allows to determine whether the arguments succeed. ...
... logical consequence, the idea that some claim must necessarily follow from others. • Arguments are designed to show that one claim logically follows from others. • Logic allows to determine whether the arguments succeed. ...
Divine Command Theory and Moral Obligations
... the popular Euthyphro-esque objection, and then argue that DCT is the most plausible account of objective moral duties. Ludwig Wittgenstein observed that “ethics, if it is anything, is supernatural.”1 This admission betrays a latent sense of the relevance of the question of God’s existence for moral ...
... the popular Euthyphro-esque objection, and then argue that DCT is the most plausible account of objective moral duties. Ludwig Wittgenstein observed that “ethics, if it is anything, is supernatural.”1 This admission betrays a latent sense of the relevance of the question of God’s existence for moral ...
Descartes` Three Proofs of God
... Indeed, Descartes uses the term “idea” to refer to what we today think of as images. Like most of his successors in the modern period, Descartes holds a representationalist theory of ideas according to which the images that our ideas depict function as the content of our thoughts. As a corollary, h ...
... Indeed, Descartes uses the term “idea” to refer to what we today think of as images. Like most of his successors in the modern period, Descartes holds a representationalist theory of ideas according to which the images that our ideas depict function as the content of our thoughts. As a corollary, h ...
The argument from evil
... that you should think that this theory is likely to be true? What this kind of case shows is that an observation might count in favor of a certain theory, but that, because the theory was antecedently so improbable, the theory remains quite improbable, even given the observation. Some atheists might ...
... that you should think that this theory is likely to be true? What this kind of case shows is that an observation might count in favor of a certain theory, but that, because the theory was antecedently so improbable, the theory remains quite improbable, even given the observation. Some atheists might ...
Anselm`s Ontological Argument
... existence, because they are a priori. Rather than starting from some sort of experience of the world, they rely solely on the definition of God. Ontological arguments claim that if you understand what the word God means, then you know that he exists, because existence is part of the definition of Go ...
... existence, because they are a priori. Rather than starting from some sort of experience of the world, they rely solely on the definition of God. Ontological arguments claim that if you understand what the word God means, then you know that he exists, because existence is part of the definition of Go ...
transcendentalism - kroll patrol english!
... –belief in God as a powerful force –belief that each individual can experience God first-hand ...
... –belief in God as a powerful force –belief that each individual can experience God first-hand ...
Awakening of the Carholic Laity
... other social ills; and the setting up of schools that are faithful to the Teaching Authority of the Church. Of course, there is no room for complacency. Much more will have to be done, considering the dechristianization of society as a result of the consumerist and materialistic environment that is ...
... other social ills; and the setting up of schools that are faithful to the Teaching Authority of the Church. Of course, there is no room for complacency. Much more will have to be done, considering the dechristianization of society as a result of the consumerist and materialistic environment that is ...
The Argument from Design & Darwinism
... seemed to be the last bastion of a ultimate support for the existence of God. Thus many theists to this day resist the Darwinian view which meanwhile has become the dominant scientific theory within Biology and has ...
... seemed to be the last bastion of a ultimate support for the existence of God. Thus many theists to this day resist the Darwinian view which meanwhile has become the dominant scientific theory within Biology and has ...
arguments - UCSD Philosophy
... Philosophy 1. Philosophical Arguments Philosophy is primarily the rigorous and exacting study of fundamental questions about the world and the way we interact with it. As such, philosophers are concerned with finding good, convincing reasons to hold various beliefs about the world. We’re consequen ...
... Philosophy 1. Philosophical Arguments Philosophy is primarily the rigorous and exacting study of fundamental questions about the world and the way we interact with it. As such, philosophers are concerned with finding good, convincing reasons to hold various beliefs about the world. We’re consequen ...
Class #8
... seemed to be the last bastion of a ultimate support for the existence of God. Thus many theists to this day resist the Darwinian view which meanwhile has become the dominant scientific theory within Biology and has ...
... seemed to be the last bastion of a ultimate support for the existence of God. Thus many theists to this day resist the Darwinian view which meanwhile has become the dominant scientific theory within Biology and has ...
ao2-ontological
... reality. We cannot bring something into existence just by defining it. “When someone tells me there is such an island, I easily understand what is being said, for there is nothing difficult here. Suppose, however, he then goes on to say: you cannot doubt that this island, more excellent than all lan ...
... reality. We cannot bring something into existence just by defining it. “When someone tells me there is such an island, I easily understand what is being said, for there is nothing difficult here. Suppose, however, he then goes on to say: you cannot doubt that this island, more excellent than all lan ...
Discerning Sound Doctrine - Excerpt from talk by Alan Springer
... teachings that are founded in the truth—very simple, no surprises there. In determining sound doctrine we could ask, What is truth? That is a question that has perplexed mankind for many centuries. Before the first instance in which that question needed to be brought to mind, no one had ever had to ...
... teachings that are founded in the truth—very simple, no surprises there. In determining sound doctrine we could ask, What is truth? That is a question that has perplexed mankind for many centuries. Before the first instance in which that question needed to be brought to mind, no one had ever had to ...
Aristotelian Rhetoric
... writing formally and effectively especially as a way to persuade or influence people. ...
... writing formally and effectively especially as a way to persuade or influence people. ...