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| Proof of God’s existence: Proofs of God are attempts to prove the existence of God through thinking. Examples are argumentations from an imagined initial or final state or from the attribution of qualities that would be contradictory without the existence of God._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Wolfgang Stegmüller on Proof of God’s Existence - Dictionary of Arguments
Stegmüller IV 404 Cosmological proof of God/Stegmüller: Laws of nature do not explain anything. 1. these laws of nature could also have been different. 2. it could also have been that nothing exists. >Existence, >Ontology, >Necessity, >Contingency. Stegmüller IV 406 God/Swinburne: our background knowledge contains all knowledge about the world, but no religious assumptions - then it is more likely that there is God than that there is none. >Background, >Knowledge. Stegmüller IV 408 Proof of God/Swinburne/MackieVsSwinburne/Stegmüller: if you want to explain the order of the natural world by divine plan, you have to explain the order in the divine plan. >Order, >Structures, >Explanation. Stegmüller IV 419 Order/God's proof/Stegmüller: a spiritual order needs no less explanation than a material one. Stegmüller IV 427 Proof of God/Stegmüller: ontological: on reason alone cosmological: with empirical premises teleological: on structures of order, appearance of purposefulness moral proof: not only theoretical knowledge, but also second-order moral assumptions. >Morality, >Ethics , >Levels._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Carnap V W. Stegmüller Rudolf Carnap und der Wiener Kreis In Hauptströmungen der Gegenwartsphilosophie Bd I, , München 1987 St I W. Stegmüller Hauptströmungen der Gegenwartsphilosophie Bd I Stuttgart 1989 St II W. Stegmüller Hauptströmungen der Gegenwartsphilosophie Bd 2 Stuttgart 1987 St III W. Stegmüller Hauptströmungen der Gegenwartsphilosophie Bd 3 Stuttgart 1987 St IV W. Stegmüller Hauptströmungen der Gegenwartsphilosophie Bd 4 Stuttgart 1989 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27