Encyclopedia - Teleological Argument: Encyclopedia - Teleological Argument
A teleological argument (or a design argument) is an argument for the existence of God or a creator based on perceived evidence of design...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Teleological Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Teleological Argument - Objections And Counter-argument
Teleological argument - First and Second premise. The first (and therefore second) premise assumes that one can infer the existence of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Teleological Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Teleological Argument - The Argument
Although there are variations, the basic argument goes something like this: X is too complex to have occurred randomly or naturally. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argumentative: Encyclopedia - Argumentative
Argumentative is an evidentiary objection raised in response to a question which prompts a witness to draw inferences from facts of the c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument: Encyclopedia - Argument
An argument is a collected series of statements to establish a definite proposition, and may refer to: logical argument, a demonstration...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cosmological Argument: Encyclopedia - Cosmological Argument
The cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of God. It is also known as the first cause argument for the existence of God,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Teleology: Encyclopedia - Teleology
Teleology is the supposition that there is design, purpose, directive principle, or finality in the works and processes of nature, and th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ontological Argument: Encyclopedia - Ontological Argument
In theology and the philosophy of religion, an ontological argument for the existence of God is an argument that God's existence can be p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument From Morality: Encyclopedia - Argument From Morality
The argument from morality is one of several arguments for the existence of God. These arguments fall under the larger category of philos...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Verb Argument: Encyclopedia - Verb Argument
A syntactic verb argument, in linguistics, is a phrase that appears in a relationship with the verb in a proposition. Typical syntactic a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arguments For The Existence Of God: Encyclopedia - Arguments For The Existence Of God
Many arguments for the existence of God have been made over the years. Arguments for the existence of God - Arguments for the necessity o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arguments For Eternity: Encyclopedia - Arguments For Eternity
Arguments for eternity composed a particularly important area of philosophical debate among Greek, Jewish, Islamic, and Christian philoso...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument Principle: Encyclopedia - Argument Principle
In complex analysis, the argument principle (or Cauchy's argument principle) states that if f(z) is a meromorphic function inside and on ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Witness Argument: Encyclopedia - Witness Argument
The Witness argument is an argument that is meant to help prove the existence of God based on the fact that many people have claimed to h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Christological Argument: Encyclopedia - Christological Argument
The Christological argument for the existence of God is a relatively modern argument. It is an indirect argument based on the claims of J...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument From Ignorance: Encyclopedia - Argument From Ignorance
The argument from ignorance, also known as argumentum ad ignorantiam or argument by lack of imagination, is the assertion that if somethi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument Of The Perihelion: Encyclopedia - Argument Of The Perihelion
The argument of the perihelion is one of the orbital elements describing a body in a Sun-centered orbit (e.g., a planet). It is the angle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument Literature: Encyclopedia - Argument Literature
An argument in literature is a brief summary, often in prose, of a poem or section of a poem or other work. It is often appended to the b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argumentation Theory: Encyclopedia - Argumentation Theory
Argumentation theory, or argumentation, is the science of effective civil debate or dialogue and the effective propagation thereof, using...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cantor's Diagonal Argument: Encyclopedia - Cantor's Diagonal Argument
Cantor's diagonal argument is a proof devised by Georg Cantor to demonstrate that the real numbers are not countably infinite. (It is als...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument From Evolution: Encyclopedia - Argument From Evolution
The argument from evolution is an argument against the existence of God, specifically against the existence of a creator God. It is based...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument Form: Encyclopedia - Argument Form
In logic, the argument form or test form of an argument results from replacing the different words, or sentences, that make up the argume...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument From Fallacy: Encyclopedia - Argument From Fallacy
The argument from fallacy, also known as argumentum ad logicam or fallacy fallacy, is a logical fallacy which assumes that because an arg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument From Nonbelief: Encyclopedia - Argument From Nonbelief
The argument from nonbelief, also known as the argument from divine hiddenness, is a recently-developed argument against the existence of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument From Inconsistent Revelations: Encyclopedia - Argument From Inconsistent Revelations
The Argument from Inconsistent Revelations, also known as the Avoiding the Wrong Hell Problem, is an argument against the existence of Go...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument From Silence: Encyclopedia - Argument From Silence
The argument from silence (also called argumentum ex silentio in Latin) is that the silence of a speaker or writer about X proves or sugg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bucket Argument: Encyclopedia - Bucket Argument
Sir Isaac Newton's rotating bucket argument is aimed at showing that there is a meaningful difference between what he calls 'true motion'...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument From Free Will: Encyclopedia - Argument From Free Will
The argument from free will is an argument against the Existence of God which contends that omniscience and free will are incompatible, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument From Poor Design: Encyclopedia - Argument From Poor Design
The argument from poor design or dysteleological argument is an argument against the existence of God, specifically against the existence...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument From Miracles: Encyclopedia - Argument From Miracles
The Argument from Miracles is an argument for the existence of God relying on eyewitness testimony of impossible (or extremely improbable...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cosmological Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Cosmological Argument - Critique And Objections
The cosmological argument depends on several assumptions. Most objections center on two of them: Everything has a cause. A causal chain ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cosmological Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Cosmological Argument - Critique And Objections
The cosmological argument depends on several assumptions. Most objections center on two of them: Everything has a cause. A causal chain ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transcendental Argument For The Existence Of God: Encyclopedia Ii - Transcendental Argument For The Existence Of God - Tag Teleology
TAG argues that the Christian worldview alone provides the necessary preconditions that can account for the facts of human experience and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ontological Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Ontological Argument - Criticisms And Objections
Ontological argument - Gaunilo's island. One of the earliest recorded objections to Anselm's argument was raised by one of Anselm's con...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Relativism: Encyclopedia Ii - Relativism - Counter-arguments
However such a contradiction is irrelevant as it constitutes arguing from the premise. Once you have said if the X is absolute you have p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cosmological Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Cosmological Argument - The Argument
Framed as a formal proof, the first cause argument can be stated as follows: Everything has a cause. Nothing can cause itself. Everythin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Consumerism: Encyclopedia Ii - Consumerism - Counter Arguments
While there is not precisely an intellectual movement to promote consumerism, there has been, in recent years, strong criticism of the an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ontological Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Ontological Argument - A Modern Description Of The Argument
Here's a short, and very general description of the ontological argument: 1) God is the greatest possible being and thus possesses all p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cosmological Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Cosmological Argument - Origins Of The Argument
Thomas Aquinas, the most famous philosopher of the Middle Ages, adapted an argument he found in his reading of Aristotle to form one of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cosmological Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Cosmological Argument - Origins Of The Argument
Thomas Aquinas, probably the best known theologian of the Middle Ages, adapted an argument he found in his reading of Aristotle to form o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anti-immigration: Encyclopedia Ii - Anti-immigration - Counter Arguments
In response, others points out that: the "isolation" argument has racist undertones as it is typically directed at immigrants from devel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Human Extinction: Encyclopedia Ii - Human Extinction - Counter Arguments
There are no convincing arguments that the extinction of human race is inevitable. The evidence of previous extinctions of animal races c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument From Morality: Encyclopedia Ii - Argument From Morality - Criticisms
Argument from morality - Logical flaws. The most common attack on the logic of this argument is by the conclusion (4), which is an assu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ontological Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Ontological Argument - Anselm's Argument
The ontological argument was first proposed by Anselm in Chapter 2 of the Proslogion. While Anselm did not propose an ontological system,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Teleology: Encyclopedia Ii - Teleology - Classical Greek Teleology
Plato summarized the argument for teleology as follows in Phaedo, arguing that it is error to fail to distinguish between the ultimate Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument From Morality: Encyclopedia Ii - Argument From Morality - The Argument
The two premises must, of course, be defended separately. However, usually this argument is employed against those (the great majority of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ontological Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Ontological Argument - Philosophical Assumptions Underlying The Argument
In order to understand the place this argument has in the history of philosophy, it is important to understand the essence of the argumen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transcendental Argument For The Existence Of God: Encyclopedia Ii - Transcendental Argument For The Existence Of God - The Argument
The Transcendental Argument for the existence of God differs from the arguments offered by Aquinas who posits a God to avoid an infinite ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ontological Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Ontological Argument - Descartes' Ontological Arguments
Descartes composed a number of ontological arguments which differed from Anselm's formulation in important ways. Generally speaking, it i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ontological Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Ontological Argument - Revisionists
Obviously Anselm thought this argument was valid and persuasive, and it still has occasional defenders, but many, perhaps most, contempor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Logical Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Logical Argument - Overview
In ordinary, philosophical and scientific argumentation abductive arguments and arguments by analogy are also commonly used. Arguments ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Logical Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Logical Argument - Argument Validity
In evaluating an argument, we consider separately the truth of the premises and the validity of the logical relationships between the pre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Logical Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Logical Argument - Theories Of Arguments
Theories of arguments are closely related to theories of informal logic. Ideally, a theory of argument should provide some mechanism for ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Logical Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Logical Argument - Argumentative Dialogue
Arguments as discussed in the preceding paragraphs are static, such as one might find in a textbook or research article. They serve as a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arguments For The Existence Of God: Encyclopedia Ii - Arguments For The Existence Of God - Arguments For The Necessity Of God
These arguments can be classified under two headings. First are the strictly logical or metaphysical arguments; these arguments seek to p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transcendental Argument For The Existence Of God: Encyclopedia Ii - Transcendental Argument For The Existence Of God - Tag And Christianity
The Transcendental Argument for the existence of God shares the basic problem with Pascal's Wager that only some form of deism or theism ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transcendental Argument For The Existence Of God: Encyclopedia Ii - Transcendental Argument For The Existence Of God - Tag Ethics
In ethics the Transcendental Argument asserts an omnibenevolent God whose own character is the basis for the predication of right and wro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arguments For The Existence Of God: Encyclopedia Ii - Arguments For The Existence Of God - Arguments For The Belief In God
There are innumerable informal arguments for belief in God. Some, for example, claim to have had personal experiences with God, or revela...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arguments For The Existence Of God: Encyclopedia Ii - Arguments For The Existence Of God - The Theological Status Of The Arguments
The theological standing of arguments for the existence of God is also subject to some debate among believers. Within the Christian tradi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Regress Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Regress Argument - Coherentism
Finally, perhaps the chain loops around on itself, forming a circle. In this case, the justification of any statement is used, after a lo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Regress Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Regress Argument - Foundationalism
Perhaps the chain begins with a belief that is justified, but which is not justified by another belief. Such beliefs are called basic bel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ontological Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Ontological Argument - Plantinga's Modal Form And Contemporary Discussion
Alvin Plantinga has given us a another version of the argument, one where the conclusion follows from the premises, assuming axiom S5 of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument From Ignorance: Encyclopedia Ii - Argument From Ignorance - Description
Irving Copi writes that: The argumentum ad ignorantiam [fallacy] is committed whenever it is argued that a proposition is true simply on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doomsday Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Doomsday Argument - Rebuttals
Doomsday argument - The doomsday argument is based on arbitrary hypotheses. Claiming that "we can say with 95% confidence that f = n/N ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument From Nonbelief: Encyclopedia Ii - Argument From Nonbelief - The Argument
A formal presentation follows: God exists and: wants all humans to believe he exists before they die; can bring about a situation in wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Political Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Political Argument - Purpose Of Political Argument
The purpose of argument is usually to sway belief. Political argument can occur in the context of political theory; for instance Machiave...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument From Poor Design: Encyclopedia Ii - Argument From Poor Design - As An Argument Regarding God
The argument from poor design is sometimes interpreted, by the argumenter or the listener, as an argument against the existence of God, o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Regress Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Regress Argument - Formal Statement Of The Argument
Assuming that knowledge is justified true belief: Suppose that P is some true belief. For it to count as knowledge, it must be justified...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Logical Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Logical Argument - The Mathematical Paradigm
In mathematics, an argument can be formalized using symbolic logic. In that case, an argument is seen as an ordered list of statements, e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Regress Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Regress Argument - Origin
The argument is usually attributed to Sextus Empiricus, and has been restated by Agrippa as part of what has become known as "Agrippa's T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument Of Periapsis: Encyclopedia Ii - Argument Of Periapsis - Calculation
In astrodynamics the argument of periapsis can be calculated as follows: (if then ) where: is the vector pointing towards the as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arguments For And Against Drug Prohibition: Encyclopedia Ii - Arguments For And Against Drug Prohibition - Arguments Against Prohibition
Arguments against drug prohibition tend to fall into one of three categories: The war on drugs is having little or no effect on the traf...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Relativism: Encyclopedia Ii - Relativism - Arguments Against Relativism
A common argument against relativism suggests that it is inherently contradictory or self-refuting or self-stultifying: the statement "al...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Teleological Argument: A Christian Theological Dictionary On Teleological Argument
A Christian theological definition of Teleological argument according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry: &...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doomsday Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Doomsday Argument - Variations
This argument has generated a lively philosophical debate, and no consensus has yet emerged on its solution. The variants described below...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Teleology: Encyclopedia Ii - Teleology - Extrinsic And Intrinsic Finality
Teleology depends on the concept of a final cause or purpose inherent in all beings. There are two types of such causes, intrinsic finali...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doomsday Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Doomsday Argument - Notes
^  The two-case section is partially based on a refutation of the Doomsday Argument by Korb and Oliver. 1 The observer-moments DA fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument Principle: Encyclopedia Ii - Argument Principle - Consequences
This has consequences in considering the winding number of f(z) about the origin, say, if C is a closed contour centered on the origin. W...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument From Poverty Of The Stimulus: Encyclopedia Ii - Argument From Poverty Of The Stimulus - Evidence For The Argument
The validity of the APS is unquestioned. Very few people, if any, would argue that Chomsky's conclusion doesn't follow from his premises....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument From Evolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Argument From Evolution - Overview
Abrahamic theology will often cite God as the Creator of humans, and all other organisms; or at least the creation of some element such a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sticky Bead Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Sticky Bead Argument - Feynman's Argument
Later in the Chapel Hill conference, Feynman — who had insisted on registering under a pseudonym to express his disdain for the contemp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Argument From Ignorance: Encyclopedia Ii - Argument From Ignorance - Law
In most modern criminal legal systems, it is the responsibility of the prosecution to prove "beyond reasonable doubt" that the defendant ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conscription: Encyclopedia Ii - Conscription - Arguments For Conscription
Conscription - Valuable training. Some argue that peacetime conscription is an ideal tool for teaching a population basic, important sk...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Euthyphro: Encyclopedia Ii - Euthyphro - The Argument
Socrates's inductive method of arguing can be seen in the main part of the dialogue, in which Socrates invites Euthyphro to put forward d...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Arguments For And Against Drug Prohibition: Encyclopedia Ii - Arguments For And Against Drug Prohibition - Arguments For Prohibition
Arguments for and against drug prohibition - Health. The most common reason given for banning drug use is that it is unhealthy, with po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Open Theism: Encyclopedia Ii - Open Theism - Arguments
Proponents of open theism assert the following, with some variation: The concepts of omnipresence and immutability do not stem from the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 7q5: Encyclopedia Ii - 7q5 - Argument
The argument is weighted on two points. First, the spacing before the word και <kai> ("and") signifies a paragraph break, which ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Membrane Paradigm: Encyclopedia Ii - Membrane Paradigm - Observerspace Arguments
Although matter falling into a black hole is considered to fall through the horizon, a distant outside observer watching an infalling obj...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Commodity Fetishism: Encyclopedia Ii - Commodity Fetishism - Marx's Argument
People within capitalist societies find their material life organized through the medium of commodities. They trade their labor-power (wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Conscription: Encyclopedia Ii - Conscription - Arguments Against Conscription
Conscription - Conscription and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Many arguments opposed to conscription, or opposed to gender...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wimp: Encyclopedia Ii - Wimp - Theoretical Arguments
Although the existence of WIMPs in nature is hypothetical at this point, it would resolve a number of astrophysical and cosmological prob...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Doomsday Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Doomsday Argument - Reference Classes
One of the major areas of DA debate is the reference class from which n is drawn, and of which N is the ultimate size. The 'standard' DA ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Existence Of God: Encyclopedia Ii - Existence Of God - Arguments Against The Existence Of God
There are many arguments which argue that the definitions or descriptions of a god are logically contradictory, demonstrating his non-exi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ontological Argument: A Christian Theological Dictionary On Ontological Argument
A Christian theological definition of Ontological Argument according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry: &n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Ontological Argument: A Christian Theological Dictionary On Ontological Argument
A Christian theological definition of Ontological Argument according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry: &n...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Interpreation Argument: Dream Interpretations Dictionary - Argument
  Dream Interpretation Argument If you dream of arguing with someone you know, it may be an indicator of your dissatisfaction w...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Argument Dream Symbol: Dreams Interpretation Dictionary - Argument
Argument Dream Symbols: Inner conflict - conflict between parts of yourself. Conflict in your life.   (Source: Myths - Dreams - S...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Meaning Of Dreams About Argument: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Argument
  Argument See: Quarrel   Source: Dream Lover Incorporated, http://www.dreamloverinc.com   (See also: Dream Archive...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Teleological Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Teleological Argument - History
Cicero made one of the earliest teleological arguments. He was writing from the cultural background of the Roman religion. In Roman mytho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Teleological Argument: Encyclopedia Ii - Teleological Argument - Controversy
One major problem in the controversy seems to be the human imagination. Neither divine miracles nor speciation (macroevolution) occur ver...   » Read the article