PHLA10H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Theistic Evolution, Cosmological Argument, Intelligent Design
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*p5 says there is an outside entity but that does not guarantee that that entity is god. if god is understood to be a person with the three properties it doesn"t guarantee that the outside entity is him. Birthday fallacy: every event in the natural world traces back to an even that occurs outside nature. there is a single event outside of the natural world to which each event in the nature traces back . Every person has a birthday. there is a single birthday that everyone has contingency: contingent things exist. necessary vs. contingent beings: 2 of 10 necessary beings: exist in all possible worlds, doesn"t depend on anything else for its existence. contingent beings: exists in some possible worlds. Aquinas proof from 6-8 has distinctive logical form. Making a mockery of an idea reductio arguments are perfectly deductively valid how it works: if p is false, then a is true.
