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PHIL 347 EXAM 1 2024/2025 WITH 100%ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
What is the basic structure of the cosmological (kalam, craig, plato-
philoponus) argument - Precise Answer ✔✔1. Everything that begins to
exist has a cause
2. the universe began to exist
therefore the universe has a cause
what is the first a priori argument regarding premise 2 of the Kalam -
Precise Answer ✔✔The universe has to have a cause as it cannot be
infinite because that implies there there is an actual infinity of real
events
Why can there not be actual infinites of real events? - Precise Answer
✔✔Because that would lead us to deny Euclid's axiom that the whole is
always larger than its parts
what is the second a priori argument regarding premise 2 of the Kalam -
Precise Answer ✔✔Even if we allow for infinities of real events, the
universe cannot be eternal or infinite, as that would mean that it
would've had to have traversed all through a past infinity of events,
which is a set of infinite steps
What are a posteriori arguments for premise 2 of the Kalam - Precise
Answer ✔✔Big bang cosmology, big bang singularity, empirically
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