1D) One major problem with Descartes view is the way in which he proves the existence of God. The idea that the idea of perfection can only come from perfection. The reason that this is not a sound argument is because it is easy for us to simply examine our own qualities and imagine a better version of them. For example. A person may be frail and weak‚ but that is no reason as to why they would be unable to imagine a person who is much stronger than themselves. Once you take all qualities and magnify
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Therefore‚ brain science cannot fundamentally change economics (is what is being argued). 4. Which of Camerer’s counter-arguments seems most persuasive? Why? The argument that neuroeconomics can use technological advances in understanding the choice-making organ (the brain) to find non-price neural and psychological variables that predict and change economic choices seems to be the most persuasive. He then lists a number of examples for non-price neural and psychological variables. One such
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Pascal says “If there is a God‚ He is infinitely incomprehensible‚ since‚ having neither parts nor limits‚ He has no affinity to us’’ (Pascal‚ 2). Throughout Pascal’s argument he makes the constant notion believing in order to gain finite happiness‚ how is it possible to know if God is willing to provide this infinite gain if he is infinitely incomprehensible? This critical mistake is the very reason Pascal’s argument doesn’t work‚ we just don’t have the knowledge to know about what truly happens
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Demon doubt because his argument does not prove that God’s existence would not prevent the serious errors in judgment and perception caused by the Evil Demon doubt. Descartes uses the Evil Demon hypothesis to prove that all one knows for sure that they exist. All other knowledge can conceivably be the result of a powerful evil demon with malicious intent. To call reality into doubt‚ Descartes
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The book‚ Chariot of the Gods? (von Daniken 1972)‚ fails to use appropriate argumentative techniques to prove its claims. This essay will analyse two arguments from the book. The first section will analyse the argument from chapter 2 by identifying the marks of pseudoscience and the marks of a good explanation. The second section will be analysing the argument in chapter 5 by discussing some pseudoscientific marks‚ fallacies‚ rhetoric and cognitive biases that the argument includes. The analysis of
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different proofs presented for the existence of God? Discuss those proofs and state whether they convince you or not and why?” PHIL 201 – Section C Word Count: 1‚898 I pledge this is my own work. God: All-Seeing‚ All-Hearing‚ Almighty‚ and all fiction? Believers indicate God as an all-powerful‚ divine being of supreme devotion. Yet‚ even though the belief in God and the worship of his power are reliant‚ they are discrete entities‚ which can draw breath without the presence
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wrote the five cosmological arguments that support the existence of God. A cosmological argument is an argument that supports the existence of God and that everything that exists was caused by something else. One of Aquinas’ ways to prove God’s existence is through the argument of possibility and necessity. He argues that there must be a first necessary being to set the chain of causes in motion which results in the universe today. Summary of the Argument The argument is based off of the fact that
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Methods and Meditations on First Philosophy is a discourse by Rene Descartes‚ which largely focuses on the nature of humanity and divinity. This essay is a discussion of this discourse‚ and will summarize‚ explain and object to various parts of his work. The majority of this essay focuses on Descartes Sixth Meditation‚ which includes his argument that corporeal things do exist. 1. There clearly exists a passive faculty of sensing and I use it involuntarily. 2. If there exists a passive faculty
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Chain of Being by subtly questioning God. When Shakespeare was writing A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ coarse ideas weren’t allowed. He uses the fairies and as a way to question God. Using the fairies’ magic powers‚ he makes the lovers fall for one another randomly. Shakespeare is establishing that love is random because he isn’t including what most people thought was real; God. Henceforth‚ he is disrupting the Great Chain of Being by questioning the existence of God. The subjectivity in the play has
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Defining existence as a predicate‚ or a property of God’s nature is essential within the ontological argument and many scholars have attacked the argument on this basis. My opinion is that existence cannot be seen to be a predicate of God or a predicate of anything else either. Even if we assume that existence can be seen to be a predicate that something can have‚ I believe that the ontological argument fails in proving that existence is a predicate of God. Like Hume has argued‚ the whole basis
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