Telos Paleys Arg Flashcards

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Palsy claimed you can clearly distinguish…

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Rocks, from those that have been designed.

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Palette watch analogy

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Watch has: Purpose - Telling the time.
Parts that work together to fit its purpose.
Parts arranged so it fits its purpose.
You conclude that the watch must be have a maker, who must have existed to construct it.

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What does the analogy show?

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Everything has a purpose.
And a designer.
Alike our universe - designed by god.

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Basic Watch Argument

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The watch is a machine designed for the purpose of time telling. (Effect)
The features of design, suggest an intelligent designer. (Cause)
The natural world and the universe show features of design.(Effect)
Conc:Therefore the universe must have an intelligent designer. (Cause)

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The Fallacy of Composition

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This describes mistakenly attributing the qualities of things within a group, to the group as a whole.

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Suppose the watch had another feature…

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That of producing other watches.

If this were the case you’d respect the designer much more.

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Even if the watch wasn’t working properly…

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Just as the world functions imperfectly.

There is enough evidence of design to deduce a watchmaker.

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Conc: Anyone finding such a watch…

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Would conclude that the design of the watch implies “the presence of intelligence and mind”
Natural Theology

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Paley commits what in his second stage arg?

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Fallacy of Composition.

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If i read a book i can know things about the writer.

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Similarly, i can look to nature, to know about God.
NT.
Aposteriori.

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Teleological Arg

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Based upon the order of the universe.

Can be called argument of design.

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Telos

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Teleological- Any arg cast in terms of the end (telos) or purpose of something.

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PRO

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Purpose.
Regularity.
Order.

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Paley looks at the PRO of the universe to show…

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PRO shows design.

Which points to a designer.

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Aqs example of the arrow

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The arrow of a bow has no purpose.
It is the archer that has purpose for it.
Like G and the universe.

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Epicurean Hypothesis

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Could such stable order arise from nothing at random?
Time + Chance = Order.
Infinite Monkeys + Typewriters + Infinite time = The entire works of Shakespeare.

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Hume empiricist or rationalist?

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Hard Empiricist.
Atheist.
Hume was keen to show that the study of nature would show us nothing about the Christian concept of god.