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language. Thomas Aquinas discussed both ontological, epistemological, and ... used this argument for his Ontological argument for the existence of God. ...

is famous as the originator of the ontological argument for the existence ... Gaunilo, in his Responsio. The ontological argument, or variations thereof ...

or atheism by challenging the ontological and epistemological assumptions ... Theological noncognitivism is the argument that religious language ...

to be true. Thomas Aquinas made this argument in the thirteenth century ... become the essential pluralities of an argument. Although the historical ...

of art were developed as part of a larger argument against Husserl's ... human mind, he set out to determine the ontological structure and status of ...

Diodrous devised the Maser Argument, widely discussed during antiquity ... first person who invented the Concealed argument, and the Horned one” ...

environmental ethics on different ontological grounds. Ethicists developed ... of ecologic humanism (eco-humanism), the argument that all ontological entities ...

quot; or who He is. The validity of this ontological argument has been discussed throughout the history of philosophy. Kant argued that we cannot settle ...

Descartes was also a proponent of the so-called 'ontological ... Leibniz, like Descartes, accepted a version of the ontological argument ...

a development of St. Anselm's ontological argument. Hartshorne is also ... God. Although he preferred the ontological argument for the existence ...

Existentialism decisively rejects this argument. Instead, it asserts that ... Kant's argument against the ontological argument for the existence ...

a benevolent God (through both the ontological argument and trademark argument ... ontological/ Descartes' Ontological Argument]. **[http://plato ...

foremost, this is the case of the ontological argument, which seeks to show ... ==The ontological argument== According to this argument, God, as the ...

Mechanism is often associated with such ontological views as atomism, materialism ... points out the flaws of a typical anti-mechanist argument. ...

That phrase contains, in summary, an argument. Descartes's argument ... at the heart of the so-called Ontological Proof of God’s Existence ...

facts and value is secondary, for on the ontological level they are inseparable ... One historically important argument for the fact-value distinction ...

Cur Deus homo] and the formulation of the ontological argument for the existence of God. A clearer connection is with the cosmological argument for the ...

sciences (Geisteswissenschaften). His argument centered around the idea ... was probably based on Dilthey’s ontological orientation. Major modern ...

roundness, etc. The first concerns their ontological status: In what way do ... More recent philosophers have run the argument without the appeal to God ...

or historical succession and proper ontological or ecclesiological succession ... Based upon this argument, the United Methodist Church understands ...

often referred to as the Conceivability Argument. In broad outline, it runs ... Descartes' second argument is often referred to as the Divisibility ...

it on faith. In the context of his ontological argument for God's existence ... The argument can be stated as follows: # If a being exists, then it ...

for "wisdom" as well. This argument, however, was inverted by ... *Quine, W.V. Ontological Relativity and Other Essays. New York: Columbia ...

to as "atheism's killer argument." This line of reasoning ... of these types of argument, see ontological argument, teleological argument ...

there are internal relations; the ontological argument for the existence ... arises. Ryle also created the classic argument against cognitivist theories ...

a ground or basis for a particular argument, and hence is used synonymously ... Viewed in these terms reason becomes an ontological term rather than ...

frequent claim made in favor of the former argument is that previous electoral precedent held that one man was equivalent to one vote, and the fact that ...

to guide his reasoning and illustrate his argument rather than lead to any ... The former two follow their standard ontological and epistemological ...

are in principle unknowable. With this argument, God and the soul became ... elements of the mind to answer both ontological and epistemological questions ...

wrote a survey of the history of the ontological proof, together with an analysis of the argument, which he later developed in Faith and Reason ...

logic. Stephen Toulmin's The Uses of Argument, in essence an epistemological ... to posit the mind or mindstuff as an ontological category. Pragmatists ...

of rights with people as there is an ontological distinction between human ... to articulate a discrimination argument against not acknowledging ...

of a substance or entity, clouding the argument. This entire argument, however ... the perceived contradiction between his argument that all species are morally ...

go as far back as Plato, who studied the ontological status of mathematical ... supported by the indispensability argument: mathematics is indispensable ...

Kant’s critical approach, moving from ontological to epistemological questions ... Existence, which questioned the ontological argument for God in the form ...

also in the sense that knowledge has an ontological status (i.e., knowledge ... *The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism (with Sir ...

the original question about being, the ontological question of metaphysics: ... Kant’s recourse to the moral argument as the only alternative to ...

Spirit's divinity, Gregory offered this argument: Look at these ... would shape most later thought about the ontological nature of the Paraclete. ...

He follows Ian Hacking's argument that many adopt social constructionism ... Steve Woolgar and Dorothy Pawluch, "Ontological Gerrymandering: ...

in any natural process. The full argument for the immortality of the ... htm Methodological Naturalism vs Ontological or Philosophical Naturalism ...

and teleological arguments. The ontological argument, originally developed ... The cosmological argument was first suggested by Aristotle, who claimed ...

merely abstract entities in our minds but ontological realities that exist in some higher, eternal realm. And so, Plato's metaphysics seems to ...

if not, how should we understand their ontological status? Aesthetics asks: ... among other means, a version of the ontological argument). Descartes’ approach ...

ID also is not considered by its theorists to be an "argument ... and philosopher Michael Polanyi’s argument that the information in ...

and Mathematics, starts with an argument from Linguistics. The Vedic etymologist and grammarian Yaska (c. seventh century B.C.E.) in his Nirukta ...

* Deterrence is based upon the utilitarian ontological notion of the ... gender, and women's liberation: An argument against postmodernism" ...

and they sought clarity and precision in argument by the use of exact language ... conclude for a short time that the ontological argument is sound), and he ...

currency devaluations. They pose the argument that the IMF requires these ... liberalism in their epistemological and ontological premises. ...

become possible due to man's ontological openness to truth. Heidegger ... * Slingshot argument * Statistical independence * Tautology (logic) ...