Cosmological argument Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Richard Taylor - ANS-supported Principle of Sufficient Reason - ANS-There is a reason for everything (known/ unknown) Taylor's famous example - ANS-Shiny ball in the woods- doesn't belong, but neither does anything else in thus world

Self-explanatory - ANS-Although there are many versions of the cosmological argument, they all begin with the fact that the universe is not _____ and argue from there that the cosmos depends on a self-sufficient cause outside itself

Phil 347 FINAL Exam Questions With 100% Verified Answers Cosmological argument Argues for the idea that the universe has a beginning. This argument follows the idea that all empirical things are in a state of generation and decay and therefore the universe is material and was created. Plato's cosmological argument premises 1.) everything that begins to exists has a cause distinct from itself 2.) the universe has a beginning 3.) hence the universe has a cause distinct from itself What ...

Phil 347 FINAL Exam Questions With 100% Verified Answers Cosmological argument Argues for the idea that the universe has a beginning. This argument follows the idea that all empirical things are in a state of generation and decay and therefore the universe is material and was created. Plato's cosmological argument premises 1.) everything that begins to exists has a cause distinct from itself 2.) the universe has a beginning 3.) hence the universe has a cause distinct from itself What ...

Omnipotence correct answers - God can do anything that is intrinsically (non-contradictory) possible for God to do Omniscience correct answers - God knows the future - God is immutable, so foreknowledge is nonexistent > *obj*: God would "change his mind" depending on what an agent chooses to do The Kalam Cosmological Argument correct answers (1) everything that begins to exist has a *cause* (2) the universe began to exist > the number of past events is continuously augmented, ...

What is the central question of the cosmological argument? - ANS-Why is there something rather than nothing?

Phil 347 FINAL Complete Exam Questions With 100% Verified Answers Graded A+ Cosmological argument Argues for the idea that the universe has a beginning. This argument follows the idea that all empirical things are in a state of generation and decay and therefore the universe is material and was created. Plato's cosmological argument premises 1.) everything that begins to exists has a cause distinct from itself 2.) the universe has a beginning 3.) hence the universe has a cause distinc...

T/F Many philosophers have asserted that the Big Bang is exactly the kind of starting point of the universe that the cosmological argument points toward. - ANS-true

David Hume - ANS-• All knowledge and ideas, however complex can be reduced to some experience our senses have. • His examination of people's mode of thinking led him to conclude that humans think they know a great deal more about the universe than is warranted. • He argued the mistake humans make is to allow imagination to make a connection between cause and effect. • For Hume, Aquinas is wrong in making a connection between cause and effect - these are two separate events rather t...

Omnipotence Correct Answer - God can do anything that is intrinsically (non-contradictory) possible for God to do Omniscience Correct Answer - God knows the future - God is immutable, so foreknowledge is nonexistent > *obj*: God would "change his mind" depending on what an agent chooses to do The Kalam Cosmological Argument Correct Answer (1) everything that begins to exist has a *cause* (2) the universe began to exist > the number of past events is continuously augmented, so ...