SCM 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Argument, Baron Verulam, Electric Potential
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St. thomas aquinas quint arguments motion ef cient causes possibility and necessity step of being argument from design a priori proposition can be justi ed independently of experience , necessary trueness. Wouldn"t be able to have sensing if it wasn"t for the mind -self individuality (each second you create who you are) -doesn"t believe in cogito; doesn"t believe in everlasting ower soul. Decartes contradicts himself; theres a big spread in his meta physics. Deity : all powerful, all knowing, all deity would not decieve him because of these things: -non-thinking -spacial -coparial. Debate from hypothesis and necessity (reductio contention ) We nd in nature things that are possible to be and not to be, that come into being and go out of being i. e. , contingent beings. Assume that every being is a contingent being. For each contingent being, there is a fourth dimension it does not exist. Father of school of thought because of epistomology.
