PHLA10H3- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 31 pages long!)
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The value of philosophy bertrand russel: how can philosophy have value if there are no right answers, answers this by talking about how science is useful and how philosophy is different from it. Science, things like inventions for example, are directly useful to the rest of the population without them having to understand how it works. Bridging the gap between your world, and the outside world. Cosmological argument for god richard taylor: necessary (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:374)ot e(cid:454)ist, (cid:373)ust e(cid:454)ist. You cannot remove its existence: uses the example of a circle. All points are equidistant from the center, you cannot change that fact. That fact is necessary to a circle being a circle: contingent could have not existed. Can cease to exist: realise that the argument is heavily based on this secondary definition of contingency. If the u(cid:374)i(cid:448)e(cid:396)se exists forever, then it is not created by anything: however, here taylor argues that creation is simply another word for dependence here.
