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Cosmological argument - Coggle Diagram
Cosmological argument
Aquinas' way 3
observation that all things that we see are contingent (moved, changed, caused), do not need to exist but they do
from Aquinas' observation, all things in the world are contingent, therefore something must exist necessarily in order to cause these contingent things to exist
argument:
everything can exist or not (everything is contingent), then there was nothing once, nothing could come from nothing, something must exist necessarily
everything necessary must either be caused or uncaused, cannot be infinite, must be uncaused being which exists necessarily -- must be God
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Status as proof
inductive argument for the existence of God -- more probability than proof (proof would need to be a priori like the Ontological argument)
could be proof based on overwhelming probability -- we have no direct observational evidence that quarks exist, but there is indirect evidence for this existence which is so overwhelming that it can be considered as a proof
nothing happens without some causal explanation - it is reasonable to think that this explanation is God
"chain of explanations will be complete and satisfying only if in the end one reaches something which has not 'just happened', simply come into existence; in short, the chain will end when it reaches something which cannot not exist ,that is to say exists necessarily. In short the explanation will stop when one gets to a Necessary being"
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