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    Casual Listener Referential Listener Critical Listener Perceptive Listener Casual listeners are probably the most common type of listeners. So‚ what is a casual listener? This type of listener likes having music playing‚ filling the environment with sounds. Whether present as a background to drive‚ study‚ work‚ exercise‚ or hang out with friends‚ music is an accompaniment to the casual listener’s daily activities. Sometimes the music simply mask the sounds of a noisy street. The casual

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    ontological argument as presented by Anselm‚ and explain its purpose. The ontological argument is A priori argument for the existence of God. St Anselm is the name most firmly associated with the origins of the ontological argument and he was an 11 century writer and the Archbishop of Canterbury. The argument has the form of a deductive proof and it an analytical argument. He wrote two treatises (the Monologion and Proslogion) which became the foundation of the Ontological Argument. The reasoning

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    To asses the strengths of the Ontological Argument for Gods existence‚ we firstly need to understand what it entails. The Ontological Argument looks at proof ’A Priori’‚ which is Analytical truth‚ reason based proof. This can be explained by saying 1+1=2. We know this to be true‚ as it is based on reasoning‚ and is a logical statement. This can be seen as a strength of the Ontological Argument‚ the fact that it is logical and rational. It deals with knowledge gained independently of experience‚ innate

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    The theistic argument that I think is most plausible is the Cosmological Argument. I think this because to me this is the only argument that is plausible because things do not exist without a cause. For example‚ people and animals do not exist without reproduction. People must have a first cause to be created and exist. “The cosmological argument for God’s existence goes like this: The world could not exist on its own so there must have been a first cause that brought it into being. This first

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    AP English Language – Causal Analysis 2 April 2013 Teens and Porn: The Good‚ The Bad‚ It All Depends on the Individual The average age that American children are first exposed to porn is eleven. By the time they are sixteen‚ ninety percent of them will have viewed pornography at least once‚ and by eighteen‚ eighty percent will have had multiple hardcore exposures (“Pornography Statistics”). The majority of these kids are boys‚ yet both genders encounter many pornographic sites on the Internet

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    Each of the five arguments presented by St. Thomas Aquinas aims at helping people from around the world apprehend the existence of God. For instance‚ the fifth case‚ which mainly relies on design‚ utilizes ideas from the governance of the universe to make its stance. It thus maintains that the best explanation of the apparent function and purposefulness to be found in nature is that a vastly intelligent mind created the natural world. Precisely‚ individuals realize that natural bodies work towards

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    Explain the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Design Argument for the existence of God. The design argument‚ also known as the argument of teleology‚ is the argument for the existence of God‚ or some kind of intelligent creator. Derived from the Greek word ‘telos’ meaning end or purpose‚ it is an a posteriori argument‚ because it is based on experience‚ not on reason or revelation‚ using the surroundings of the world as supporting evidence. The argument is an inductive one‚ as its reasoning can give way

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    1b) Examine the key concepts of the ontological argument for the existence of God (18) The ontological argument rests on the premise that the universe’s existence is contingent- it depends on something else to exist. The argument is deductive‚ analytic and a priori‚ and was first formed by St. Anselm‚ who prayed for a short argument that would prove God to be “that than which nothing greater can be conceived”. This prayer was called the proslogion and tried to prove God by means of reductio ad

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    directed to their end: and this being we call God" Aquinas‚ Summa Theologica. The teleological argument is the design argument for the existence of God. This argument is an a posteriori argument. It is based on observations of the apparent order in the universe and the natural world‚ to conclude that it is not the result of mere chance but of design. The evidence from design points to a designer and the argument concludes that the designer is God. "With such signs of forethought in the design of living

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    Reasoning Gods existence This paper will talk about reasoning Gods existence‚ St. Thomas Aquinas’ three arguments for Gods existence using reason alone‚ and human reason limitations with regard to knowing God. St. Thomas Aquinas was a 13th century theologian and doctor of the church. He was born in 1226 to a righteous family in Italy and was taken in by Benedictines at age five. At age ten he went on to study at Naples University. St. Thomas Aquinas was almost smarter than his own teachers. He

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