PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A contemporary introduction

182 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS 3 The inclusive strategy: prove it the case that the world is everlasting and dependent ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 183 Principles of Sufficient Reason 1 The Everlasting World Strategy requires something like this: (PSR ...

184 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS actions. Semitic and Hindu monotheists want to infer from the world’s existence to God’s ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 185 If Tim is Tom’s father, then Tom is not Tim’s father; being a father, being a mother, being a paren ...

186 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS Putting the water over the fire, causing it to boil; turning the key in the ignition, ca ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 187 dependence relation to something, and that this domain is finite. Then it follows that some member ...

188 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS Definition 8: Y causes X to change with respect to property Q if and only if Y causes X ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 189 The issue of whether there can be self-moving or self-changing things was hotly disputed in the med ...

190 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS The sort of dependence that T2 describes is non-reciprocal and consecutive. The sort of ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 191 that an infinitely membered series does not fit this description. Plainly nothing in the argument o ...

192 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS 5 There is not an infinite series of beings that come to be and are caused to come to be ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 193 11 T has already occurred. 12 If T has already occurred, then nothing exists now. So: 13 Nothing ex ...

194 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS But a world of which B was true is a world of which C could not be true. Hence inferring ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 195 examining these arguments has not been very positive; none seems even close to a proof that God exi ...

196 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS Premise 1 is a version of the Principle of Sufficient Reason. 2 There exist things whose ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 197 5 That a logically contingent existential proposition is true can only be explained by some other e ...

198 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS Cosmological argument, stage three 9 If some existential proposition concerning somethin ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 199 it is compatible with there being an infinite number of contingent truths, each explained by some o ...

200 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS Cosmological Argument, stage four It is at least not unreasonable to accept PSR*, and it ...

ARGUMENTS FOR MONOTHEISM 201 whose existence it is logically possible to explain, something has necessary existential security. ...