PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Unmoved Mover, A Priori And A Posteriori, Presupposition
25 May 2014
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Observation: experimental crosses with pea plants were observed to yield such-and- such results. Conclusion: there are genes (elements) and they obey laws l. Sound argument - one where all premises are true, and the argument is deductively valid. Five arguments regarding the existence of god summarized by the 13th century. Roman catholic philosopher and theologian st. thomas aquinas in his book, summa. Ef cient cause - ef cient cause of an object is equivalent to that which causes change and motion to start or stop (ex* painter painting a house). In many cases, this is simply the thing that brings something about (ex* the ef cient cause of a statue is the person that chiseled away at it from a block of marble into a statue) Unmoved mover - a thing cannot move itself, so there must be an unmoved mover from whom all motion proceeds. P1: in the natural world, events occur.
