INTRODUCTION The question of God is a perennial subject of debate in the history of philosophical scholarship and can be located in nearly all the epochs of philosophy. The subject however occupies a central space in the medieval epoch that was characterized by religious thinkers. The debate is largely between two schools of thought. There are those who opine that there is no such entity as God. To such thinkers‚ the question of God does not amount to anything but is largely a product of human
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INTRODUCTION Abstract Algebra is more rightly considered meta-mathematics than mathematics proper‚ because it can be used to describe the structures that exist within mathematics from a general standpoint. The basic notions of Groups‚ Rings‚ Fields‚ and Algebraic Extensions provide a framework from which to examine almost all of mathematics. These notions serve as unifying concepts that interlace such seemingly disparate subjects as geometry‚ analysis‚ number theory‚ topology and even applied
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arguments then demonstrating that they are unsatisfying in proving God’s existence. To do this I shall be discussing criticisms put forward in response to both the Trademark and Ontological arguments. These criticisms I shall be discussing are the Cartesian Circle‚ the origin of all ideas from experience and the problem of omnipotence and evil. Descartes first argument he puts forward in the Third Meditation and that is the Trademark Argument. This argument is founded
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It is not obtained through sense perceptions. This is a reason that supports his claim that finite substances‚ such as the human mind‚ are not capable of creating such a omnipotent‚ omnibenevolent‚ infinite‚ omniscient God. He goes on to claim that the idea of God is innate‚ a concept that is present‚ or “imprinted”‚ in the human mind from birth. Descartes strongly believes that innate ideas are the necessary things that provide a reliable basis for all metaphysical knowledge. The idea of God is
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Cartesian theory essentially proves each sub-idea until the main idea is reached. By using a step-by-step methodology for proving God’s existence and substance dualism‚ it is very difficult to find a flaw in his theories. Because nonexistence is an imperfection
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criticism of Descartes’ substance dualism By: Jawad Samimi 01/04/2012 Substance dualism is often called ‘Cartesian dualism" and is the assumption that mind and body are really distinct substances. Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650) was the first early modern philosopher to hold that a thinking-thing is entirely different form an extended thing and mind can exist without the body. Cartesian dualism‚ which started the famous mind-body problem of causal interaction‚ has been criticised by many‚ one of
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Rene Descartes Rene Descartes was a brilliant man. His works on philosophy‚ physics and mathematics are still heavily influenced much to all of these studies today in our modern world. Descartes was born in March 31‚ 1596 in La Haye‚ France; he was named after one of his godfathers‚ Rene Bruchard des Funtaines. Descartes parents were Joachim and Jeanne Descartes‚ he also had one brother and one sister and two half siblings. Growing up Descartes had health issues “infirmity of the lungs‚ (Rene
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for his existence. Descartes defends his arguments and diminishes the circle by basing the reality principle on a conceptual truth; that nothing comes from nothing. This separates the reality principle from the Truth Rule‚ effectively solving the Cartesian Circle. This solution weakens the Reality Principle‚ which depended on the existence of God who is no
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In 1967‚ Robert L. Scott started a seminal debate within the rhetoric community with his essay‚ “On Viewing Rhetoric as Epistemic.” His argument – rhetoric is epistemic - has been analyzed and/or criticized by many scholars. Scott himself followed up in 1976 with an article titled‚ “On Viewing Rhetoric as Epistemic: Ten Years Later” in order to address some of these concerns‚ and add to his original thoughts. Despite this follow-up‚ authors still continue criticize and defend his work. This essay
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The Coherence Theory of Truth First published Tue Sep 3‚ 1996; substantive revision Tue Sep 9‚ 2008 A coherence theory of truth states that the truth of any (true) proposition consists in its coherence with some specified set of propositions. The coherence theory differs from its principal competitor‚ the correspondence theory of truth‚ in two essential respects. The competing theories give conflicting accounts of the relation between propositions and their truth conditions. (In this article‚ ‘proposition’
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