Cosmological Argument Key Words

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• 1. An argument based on the idea that things can be known without any experience. For example, 'all bachelors are unmarried' would be a priori statement because you only have to know the meaning of bachelor to know its true (1, 6)
• 3. The philosophical explanation of phenomena by the purpose they serve, rather than the causes believed to be behind them (9)
• 6. An event or condition that depends on something else, which may or may not happen. Things do not contain the reason for their own existance, but depend on external causes (11)
• 7. An idea that religious beliefs cannot be justified by rational means, only through faith (7)
• 9. An Arabic term which means to 'argue' or 'discuss'. Muslim scholars developed the kalam argument to explain Gods creation of the universe. It is cosmological as it seeks to prove that God was the first cause of the universe (5)