The cosmological and teleological arguments are what type of arguments?
A Posteriori
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What is meant by an a posteriori argument?
Arguments based on observation
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What is meant by a synthetic statement?
A proposition or statement that needs to be verified
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Who said: 'What could be more clear or obvious when we look up to the sky and contemplate the heavens, than that there is some divinity of superior intelligence?’
Cicero
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What anaology does Aquinas use to illustrate his teleological argument?
The Arrow and the Archer
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How did Anthony Flew criticise Aquinas' teleological argument?
It goes beyond the available evidence
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Who proposed the watchmaker argument?
William Paley
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What is the name of the cosmological argument devised by Leibniz?
The Principle of Sufficent Reason
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Who is the most famous proponent of the Kalam cosmological argument?
William Lane Craig
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What analogy did David Hume use to illustrate the limits of Natural Theology?
The scales
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Who divised the fallacy of composition to criticise the cosmological argument?
Bertrand Russell
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What objection to John Stuart Mill raise against the teleological argument?
The cruelty of nature
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Arguments based on observation
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Who said: 'What could be more clear or obvious when we look up to the sky and contemplate the heavens, than that there is some divinity of superior intelligence?’
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What anaology does Aquinas use to illustrate his teleological argument?
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