Although I disagree with van Inwagen's formulation of ontic arguments, I do not reject it as a whole - its considerable advantage is, I suggest, in blocking an objection (which allegedly follows from Fregean semantics) that the sentence "God exists" is not well formed. Consequently, part of...
While there are several different versions of the argument, all purport to show that it is self-contradictory to deny that there exists a greatest possible being; indeed, the character of the ontological argument is such that it is as much a contradiction to deny that God exists as it is ...
Atheism is the criticism and denial of metaphysical beliefs in god or spiritual creatures. The term “atheist” refers to someone who denies to believe in gods. Click for PDF and Google Slides worksheets.
1. Introduction In contemporary philosophy, it is generally agreed that the existence of God cannot be proven definitively. The debates regarding the existence of a God are foundationally based on logic. William James and Blaise Pascal have provided interesting arguments regarding the logical reasons ...
Existence of God, in religion, the proposition that there is a supreme being that is the creator or sustainer or ruler of the universe and all things in it, including human beings. In many religions God is also conceived as perfect, all-powerful and all-
because no being can come into existence except through a being that already exists. Therefore, there must be at least one necessary being—a being that is not capable of not existing. Furthermore, every necessary being is either necessary in itself or caused to be necessary by another necessa...
The fallacy assumes a cause for an event where there is no evidence that one exists. Two events may occur one after the other or together because they are correlated, by accident or due to some other unknown event; one cannot conclude that they are causally connected without evidence. The ...
The arguments purport to show that classical theism entails the absurdly fatalistic conclusion that everything exists necessarily. My first aim in this paper is bold: to put an end to action-based modal collapse arguments against classical theism. To accomplish this, I first articulate the ‘...
If no window exists with the givenwindow-id, then a new window will be created with that id/name. For example, runningwt -w _quakewill open a new"quake window". Running that command again will open a new tab in the existing quake window. ...
RESTORE Statements - Arguments that are described in the Syntax sections of the RESTORE T-SQL syntax.