Cosmological argument

Question 1

Who is the main scholar?

Answer 1

St Thomas Aquinas

Question 2

What is a contingent being?

Answer 2

Things that are dependant on something else for their existence

Question 3

What is the
‘Fallacy of composition’

Answer 3

A failure in reasoning when the reasoning is ‘what is true of the part is true of the whole’

Question 4

What is Occam’s razor

Answer 4

The simplest explanation is the best one

Question 5

What is the principle of sufficient reason?

Answer 5

Everything must have a reason or cause, every contingent thing has an explanation

Question 6

Who are the 6 key scholars?

Answer 6

Thomas Aquinas
David Hume
Richard dawkins

G.W leibniz
Bertrand Russell
John Mackie

Question 7

Key words to describe Aquinas’s 3rd way

Answer 7

Inductive
A posteriori
Empiricism

Question 8

What is Aquinas’s argument in basis

Answer 8

Everything we see is contingent; nothing is not contingent; so something but exist that is necessary like god