Cosmological Argument

Question 1

A Posteriori

Answer 1

post evidence , based on evidence which already exists

Question 2

Synthetic

Answer 2

truth can only be observed by experience or observation

Question 3

Inductive

Answer 3

conclusion is a statement about what is most probable rather than definite

Question 4

Contnigent

Answer 4

depend on something else for its existence e.g universe

Question 5

Necessary

Answer 5

does not depend on anything else for its existence e.g God

Question 6

Aquinas

Answer 6

italian priest influnced by Plato and aristotle , natural law

Question 7

The first way - Prime Unmoved mover

Answer 7

Things move from potentiality to actuality ..Things that move must be moved by something .. things cannot move themselves . Furthermore things are evidently in motion .. there can not be a infinite chain of movers so there has to be an unmoved mover God

Question 8

Prime Unmoved mover , Newtons 1st law

Answer 8

a particle would tend to stay at restor move in a constant velocity if no external force is applied to it … no need for God

Question 9

Unmoved mover ?

Answer 9

eveything that initaites change must have been initiated itself

Question 10

unmoved mover , Michealson and Morley

Answer 10

there is no absolute frame of reference in the universe .. no absolute motion

Question 11

The second way - uncaused causer

Answer 11

eveything has an efficent cause .. the universe has one God because aquinas did not believe in infinite regress

Question 12

The third way - contingency

Answer 12

solves the problem of God being the first yet not having a cause he is necessary not contingent .
everything in the world and the universe is contingent and needed something to bring it to existence … God

Question 13

Contingency in nature

Answer 13

ecosystems - existence of other species depends on each other and natural resources

Question 14

Gottfried lebniz

Answer 14

german philospher , mathemetician

Question 15

principle of sufficent reason

Answer 15

if something exists there must be a reason why it exists
if a statement is truue ..
is something happens …

Question 16

why we can not know anything about cause Hume

Answer 16

we cant prove cause ,just correlation.. the sun does not know it will rise everyday but it does

Question 17

Fallacy of composition Hume

Answer 17

just because i can see cause does not mean the universe has a cause

Question 18

rejection of a beginning to the universe

Answer 18

Russels brute fact universe just is

Question 19

rejection of God as necessary

Answer 19

there could be a comitte of Gods .. does not have to be a christian God

Question 20

there is a difference between reality and speculation

Answer 20

its not reality its just speculation .. e.g the bus stopped for me

Question 21

Cosmological argument

Answer 21

an argument for the existence of God based upon observational and factual statements concerning the universe typically in the context of causation, change, contingency or finitude.