Philosophy Criticisms

1. Hume maintains that the Cosmological argument begins with familiar concepts of the universe and concludes with not-so-familiar concepts beyond human experience. (5, 4)
6. Russell however refused to accept the notion of a necessary being as one that cannot be thought of not existing, and concluded that the regress of causal events could not be held responsible for the existence of everything in the universe: (8, 7)
7. Hume concludes that it is not possible to prove the existence of a being who is unknowable and existentially different from all other beings. (5, 4)
8. In ‘Critique of Pure Reason, opposed the theory that a chain of cause-effect events can be set in motion from outside the realm of the physical universe. (8, 4)

2. Recognising when a line of argument disobeys the rules of logic and instead of moving from one step to the next makes a great leap. (5, 4)
3. For Hume, God’s existence cannot be proven analytically (by definition), since the definition of God’s nature is not knowable. (5, 4)
4. This is the same as saying that because all humans have a mother, the Earth has a mother. (5, 4)
5. The cause-effect relationship is observed within the confines of the Temporal world. therefore any talk of the causal cycle stretching beyond the empirical world is non-sensical. (8, 4)
9. The example of the Bus. (Any link made would be a link made by you in your own mind) Fallacy of affirmation (5, 4, 7)

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