COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT - keywords
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- Created on: 13-02-14 12:57
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- COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
- aseity
- Existence is derived from itself/self generating i.e. uncaused
- causation
- Something which brings about a result
- contingency
- A being that has a beginning and end which is dependent on something for its existence
- deism
- Belief in a God who starts the world off or creates it but then leaves it to run by itself
- First cause
- The thing which caused all other things
- infinite regress
- A chain of events that go backwards for ever
- necessary existence
- Something which has to exist and could not fail to exist
- Quantifier Shift Fallacy
- You cannot move from particulars to a general principle
- sufficient reason
- The truth of a fact, or the existence of a thing must include an explanation of why it is like that and not different
- aseity
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