Search results for "Ontological argument" - New World Encyclopedia

From New World Encyclopedia
  • often referred to as the Conceivability Argument. In broad outline, it runs ... Descartes' second argument is often referred to as the Divisibility ...
    49 KB (7,510 words) - 22:42, 28 March 2023
  • 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 ...
    25 KB (3,894 words) - 00:37, 18 November 2022
  • for "wisdom" as well. This argument, however, was inverted by ... *Quine, W.V. Ontological Relativity and Other Essays. New York: Columbia ...
    25 KB (3,698 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
  • to as "atheism's killer argument." This line of reasoning ... of these types of argument, see ontological argument, teleological argument ...
    41 KB (6,063 words) - 18:42, 19 August 2023
  • there are internal relations; the ontological argument for the existence ... arises. Ryle also created the classic argument against cognitivist theories ...
    18 KB (2,734 words) - 07:53, 14 December 2022
  • a ground or basis for a particular argument, and hence is used synonymously ... Viewed in these terms reason becomes an ontological term rather than ...
    15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
  • 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 ...
    33 KB (4,653 words) - 16:01, 31 December 2023
  • to guide his reasoning and illustrate his argument rather than lead to any ... The former two follow their standard ontological and epistemological ...
    14 KB (2,201 words) - 12:00, 30 October 2021
  • are in principle unknowable. With this argument, God and the soul became ... elements of the mind to answer both ontological and epistemological questions ...
    23 KB (3,260 words) - 07:38, 24 January 2023
  • 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 ...
    17 KB (2,548 words) - 02:20, 16 December 2022
  • logic. Stephen Toulmin's The Uses of Argument, in essence an epistemological ... to posit the mind or mindstuff as an ontological category. Pragmatists ...
    38 KB (5,567 words) - 22:10, 30 November 2022
  • of rights with people as there is an ontological distinction between human ... to articulate a discrimination argument against not acknowledging ...
    32 KB (4,972 words) - 06:14, 28 July 2023
  • of a substance or entity, clouding the argument. This entire argument, however ... the perceived contradiction between his argument that all species are morally ...
    30 KB (4,407 words) - 09:08, 28 January 2024
  • go as far back as Plato, who studied the ontological status of mathematical ... supported by the indispensability argument: mathematics is indispensable ...
    31 KB (4,571 words) - 04:15, 24 November 2022
  • Kant’s critical approach, moving from ontological to epistemological questions ... Existence, which questioned the ontological argument for God in the form ...
    48 KB (7,410 words) - 18:17, 23 January 2024
  • also in the sense that knowledge has an ontological status (i.e., knowledge ... *The Self and Its Brain: An Argument for Interactionism (with Sir ...
    33 KB (4,906 words) - 07:20, 5 October 2022
  • the original question about being, the ontological question of metaphysics: ... Kant’s recourse to the moral argument as the only alternative to ...
    26 KB (3,945 words) - 02:48, 5 October 2022
  • Spirit's divinity, Gregory offered this argument: Look at these ... would shape most later thought about the ontological nature of the Paraclete. ...
    32 KB (4,920 words) - 17:26, 17 February 2023
  • He follows Ian Hacking's argument that many adopt social constructionism ... Steve Woolgar and Dorothy Pawluch, "Ontological Gerrymandering: ...
    34 KB (4,832 words) - 00:18, 16 February 2022
  • in any natural process. The full argument for the immortality of the ... htm Methodological Naturalism vs Ontological or Philosophical Naturalism ...
    34 KB (5,420 words) - 15:44, 14 July 2023

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)