Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Ontological Argument, Cybernetics, Allah
2 Dec 2012
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Cosmological means having to do with the study of the world or universe. Unlike the ontological argument which is bases on consideration about a concept, these arguments proceed from considerations about the world: aquinas" five ways. September 20, 2011: some history and other introductory matters. Thomas aquinas (1225-1274: the first way: the argument from change, the argument. The world is not infinitely old: the second way: the argument from causation, the argument. The chain of causes cannot go back to infinity. Therefore, there is a first cause: a problem with the second way: ambiguity of first The firsts 2 first s means earlier; the second 2 means preceded (in the. If you remove the first cause you remove the subsequent effect passage) He is arguing that because a finite stretch of a causal chain has a first cause, it follows that the whole causal cause chain must have a first cause.
