Questions tagged [cosmological-argument]
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In The Leibnizian Cosmological Argument, is it allowed for necessary being to have alternatives(like different versions of that category)?
In the Argument of Contingency and Leibnizian Cosmological Argument, it is said that if something could have been diffferent then that thing can not be necessary. My question is can a simultaneosly ...
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In the Contingency argumemt it is referenced that alternative having things can not be necessary, whats the alternative in here can be considered as?
In the Argument of Contingency there is referenced that if something has alternatives, that thing can't be necessary because of it could be something different than what it is, so is this information ...
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In the argument of Contingency(Leibnizian Cosmological Argument) can a necessary existent have alternatives? [closed]
Hello I've got a question about Leibnizian Cosmological Argument, In the argument can a necessary existent have alternatives? Why yes and why not? And are numbers considered as alternatives to each ...
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Why is it invalid to conclude from ‘Some A is B’ and ‘One A does not differ the least bit from another’ that ‘Every A is B’?
I am reading a paper¹ which explains criticism of Kant’s putative argument that the cosmological argument reduces to the ontological one. To show that, a syllogism of this form is needed:
(Major) The ...
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How could we get over a seeming contradiction in first cause causality without jumping to anything impossible?
This post is showing a contradiction in the existence of a first cause, meaning maybe it's not possible for it to exist. You might not get this immediately so look at the second paragraph and read ...
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Explaining the existence vs. explaining the nonexistence of necessary beings
I understand that I am waiving issues like the absolute/relative simplicity/complexity distinction, the difference between the logic of existence and the logic of nonexistence per se, etc., so I ...
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What precisely are brute contingent facts?
In my philosophical discourses typically relating to cosmological arguments, I've been astounded by brute facts, and how they relate to contingency and necessity. My reflections can be adduced by a ...
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How sound is the Avicennian argument from Contingency?
There are numerous variations of the argument from contingency that that are postulated in apologetics and philosophical speculation, however I stumbled upon an argument that is ascribed to my ...
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If there is no more gap, is the existence of God the logical conclusion?
The god of the gaps is used to fill the last gap in front of a fundamental explanation of the physical world.
Fundamental physical constants, like the masses of the elementary particle families (or ...
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An argument against brute physical facts
I would like to know what anybody thinks of the following argument against brute physical facts, such as the idea that the material universe as a whole is a brute fact.
A physical fact is taken to ...
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The resemblance of 'being that exists' with the 'element' in the definition of a set
What exactly is the meaning of the term 'being that exists' which is associated with the argument from contingency. Can I equate this term with an abstract object (SEP) such as 'element' in the ...
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Is there a logical reason to default to a certain type of first cause?
While there are some exceptions, physics generally holds that the universe has a beginning.
Assuming that there is a first cause of the universe, what are the logical based reasons for preferring ...
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How do we know things don't come into existence Ex Nihilo on their own?
The Kalam Cosmological Argument relies on the idea that things don't just pop into existence from nothing, or they don't come into existence Ex Nihilo. However, it seems that it justifies this based ...
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Why is this argument supposedly improved?
Hello to all philosophers!
A while ago my professor was going through the First Cause Argument and formatted it as such:
Everything has a cause.
The chain of causes cannot reach back indefinitely;
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The Kalam Cosmological Argument
I have recently watched a discussion between William Lane Craig and the CosmicSkeptic about the Kalam, and it gave me this idea, and I doubt I'm the first to have it but what if causality is in itself ...
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