Cosmological Argument

Question 1

What is aquinas first way ?

Answer 1

Arguments from motion

Question 2

What is aquinas second way ?

Answer 2

Arguments from causation

Question 3

What is aquinas third way ?

Answer 3

Arguments from contingency

Question 4

Does aquinas believe there could be an infinte regression ?

Answer 4

No

Question 5

What is the fallacy of composition ?

Answer 5

That qualities within the universe don’t necessarily apply to the universe as a whole

Question 6

What does it mean for something to be contingent ?

Answer 6

That things can either exist or they can not exist

Question 7

What is a necessary being ?

Answer 7

Something that cannot not exist

Question 8

What is deism ?

Answer 8

belief in a creator who had no further involvement with the universe

Question 9

What is Leibniz argument of sufficient reason ?

Answer 9

That every truth has an explanation

Question 10

What are the two types of truth Leibniz refers to ?

Answer 10

Truths of reasoning
Truths of fact

Question 11

What is the Kalam argument ?

Answer 11

Whatever begins to exist has a cause, the universe began to exist, therefore the universe has a cause