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space–time, 9, 12, 36–7, 40, 42–3,
82, 107, 160 –1, 163, 172–3, 204,
209–10
as whole, no change in, 160, 163, 172
no absolute axes, 42
species, origin of, 92, 94 –6, 115, 159,
171, 226
Spinoza, B., 14, 20, 207, 213, 242
spiritual challenge, 143
spiritualism, 108
spirituality, 8–9, 79, 190
consistent with metaphysics, 80
Strauss, D., 55
structuralism, 41
substances and attributes, 131–3, 161,
164, 181, 228, 234, 243
Swinburne, R., 95, 217–18, 222–3
symmetry, 19–21, 28–9, 210–11, 215–16

Tarski, A., 206
tautology, 205–7
Taylor, S.R., 66–8, 70
Teichmann, R., 159
teleological argument (see argument to
design)
teleology not needed by science, 85
teleology, new, 12–14, 22, 25, 69,
109–11, 114, 116, 123, 126
old, 88–92, 94, 96, 101–2, 107–9, 111,
123, 126, 135, 176, 195, 224, 227
Teresa of Avila, St, 190
testimony, 51–7, 80, 183–6
Thales of Miletus, 3, 12
thatness and whatness, 127–33, 161–2
theism, agnostic, 147
and mathematics, 38–42
as scientific theory, 60
definition of, 3–4, 8
emotionally attractive, 70
historical forms of, 66
metaphysical, 69
theodicy, 60 –1, 138–9, 142, 144, 164,
244, 246
distinct from defence, 244–5
theory change, 6–8, 12, 53, 56–7, 215–16

theory-testing, 6, 49–50, 53, 57, 207,

210, 215, 218–19

thinking, 93, 96–7, 135–6, 171

implies concepts, 101–2, 107, 121,

126, 195–6, 228, 235

learnt in saying, 102–5

mediumversus content, 236–7, 240

not identical with its embodiment,

136–7, 196, 228

Thomism, 35, 81, 99, 103–4, 128,

130 –1, 139, 161, 197, 228

thought, causal theory of, 107, 174

transcendent, no argument to, 4, 134–7,

162, 191, 218

transcendentals, 133

trees, just physical mechanisms, 153–4,

176

Trinity, 54, 68, 79, 147, 189

truth as confirmation, 78

as provability, 39, 206, 218

by linguistic convention, 204 –8

Tryon, E.P., 36–7

Tunguska incident, 53

uncaused events, 125

uncertainty principle, 36–7

understanding, 189–91

universals, realism about, 42, 232–3

universe, as necessary being, 162–3,

241–2

awe at, x, 11, 14–15, 21, 25, 32, 45,

69, 161, 190, 207–8, 212, 219, 247

best possible, 30 –1, 62, 64 –5, 165, 246

complexity of, 23–4, 29, 32, 160,

164, 240 –1, 243–4

existence of as a whole, 33, 35–7,

42–3

external cause of, 22, 35–7, 86, 111,

119, 122, 126, 210

purpose of, 69

remarkably large, 25, 66–8, 152

self-understanding, 116, 189

unnecessarily complicated?, 25, 27,

29, 165, 189

unobservables, 134