There once was a man who said, "God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there's no one about in the Quad." (Ronald Knox) Dear Sir, Your astonishment's odd I am always about in the Quad. And that's why the tree Will continue to be, Since observed by Yours f
What is a proof for the existence of God?
โ Scribed by Paul Vincent Spade
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 439 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7047
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โฆ Synopsis
The purpose of this paper is to examine the notion of a proof for the existence of God. I take the term "God" in this context as an abbreviation for the definite description "the x such that Ox". I
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In Cardinal Newman's notebook which contains the "Proof of Theism" on which Adrian Boekraad and Henry Tristram centred their book The Argument from Conscience to the Existence of God, there is a list of six arguments for the existence of God. 1 The fifth item reads -cryptically -"St. Anselm's argume
Contemporary defenders of the various versions of the ontological argument for God's existence commonly acknowledge that the cogency of each variant critically depends upon the logical coherence of a premise affirming God's existence. They commonly fail to notice, however, that the cogency of each s