Russell and Copleston - contingency
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- R + C contingency
- Russell
- there is no necessary existence
- things that are necessary have to be true eg. 1+1=2
- it is not analytic that God exists because he may not
- God's existence is not necessary
- fallacy of composition
- just because everyone in the human race has a another, does not mean the universe has a mother
- the universe doesn't need a cause
- not everything needs a cause
- quantum fluctuations appear and disappear without cause
- no need for explanation
- the universe just is
- there is no necessary existence
- Copleston
- contingent things
- there are two kinds of existence
- necessary
- contingent
- all contingent things depend on something - leads to infinite regress
- the universe must be the cause of itself
- there are two kinds of existence
- Leibniz
- there must be sufficient reason why things are as they are and not otherwise
- infinite series problem
- if everything is contingent - infinite regress
- there must be one necessary being to cause everything else - God
- if everything is contingent - infinite regress
- contingent things
- criticism of Copleston
- necessity can be applied o a being and a statement
- there is mo such thing as a necessary being only a statement - which is also analytic
- necessity can be applied o a being and a statement
- strengths of Copleston
- a posteriori
- inductive
- empirical
- Russell
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