PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A contemporary introduction

162 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS no point. Roweanism presumably reasons as follows: on the evidence we actually have, an ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 163 (EE) If we follow (E) in cases where we are not inferring from an evil being inexplicable to ou ...

164 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS Rb If the rationale of an evil is unknown to us even after our most careful reflections, ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 165 Herman, Arthur (1976) The Problem of Evil in Indian Thought, Delhi: Motilal Barnasidas. A consi ...

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CHAPTER 10 Arguments for monotheism Proof Logical necessity Purely conceptual proofs and the Ontological Argument Empirical proo ...

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10 Arguments for monotheism Proof P roof is a complex notion. In simplest terms, a proof is a valid argument with true premises. ...

170 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS (vii) Argument A has the form: 1. Either G or N; 2. Not-N; so 3.G. (viii)Argument B has ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 171 Types of propositions Something has truth value if and only if it is either true or false. Anything ...

172 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS depends on our language or our conventions. Such truths are true under all conditions, a ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 173 Unfortunately (something its users do not intend) the language that contrasts de dicto (of speech) ...

174 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS de re there corresponds a necessity de dicto expressible in a corresponding conditional ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 175 2 No necessary propositions are existential – none entails that anything actually exists. 3 All nec ...

176 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS Definition 6: A being has maximal excellence if and only if it is omnipotent, omniscient ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 177 3P. 4 If P then G. So: 5G. and that form is logically impeccable. If there are any problems with th ...

178 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS 3y God exists is logically contingent is true. 4y If God exists is logically contingent ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 179 E In each argument, if the second premise is true, the argument is sound. F Premise 2y is true if a ...

180 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS Exposition of the Ontological Argument From 3 on, the argument is correct. You might obj ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 181 2 (Possibly, something has logically necessary existence). So: 3 (Something has logically necessary ...