Either all necessary truths are analytic or some are not. 2. If all necessary truths are analytic, then the cosmological argument does not establish that God exists. 3. If some necessary truths are not analytic, then the universe is either a contingent entity or a necessary entity. 4. If the univers
The cosmological argument: Assessment of a reassessment
β Scribed by Houston Craighead
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 400 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7047
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Within philosophy of religion, a cosmological argument is understood to be an argument from the existence of the world to the existence of God. Typically, such arguments proceed in two steps. The fi rst step argues from the existence of the world to the existence of a fi rst cause or necessary being