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The existence of God is a subject of debate in the philosophy of religion and theology. [1] A wide variety of arguments for and against the existence of God (with the same or similar arguments also generally being used when talking about the existence of multiple deities) can be categorized as logical, empirical, metaphysical, subjective, or ...
St. Anselm's ontological argument, in its most succinct form, is as follows: "God, by definition, is that for which no greater can be conceived. God exists in the understanding. If God exists in the understanding, we could imagine Him to be greater by existing in reality. Therefore, God must exist."
American philosopher of religion William L. Rowe notably believed that the structure of the ontological argument was such that it inherently begs the question of God's existence, that is to say, that one must have a presupposed belief in God's existence in order to accept the argument's conclusion. To illustrate this, Rowe devises the concept ...
Pages in category "Arguments for the existence of God" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Kurt Gödel, the eminent mathematical logician, composed a formal argument for God's existence. Philosophical theism is the belief that the Supreme Being exists (or must exist) independent of the teaching or revelation of any particular religion . [ 1 ]
In other words, according to Aquinas, even if the universe has always existed, it still owes its continuing existence to an uncaused cause, [31] he states: "... and this we understand to be God." [16] Aquinas's argument from contingency is formulated as the Third Way (Q2, A3) in the Summa Theologica. It may be expressed as follows: [16]
Further treatments: In the Question of the Summa theologica: in Article I, Aquinas finds that the existence of God is not self-evident to humans. In Article II, he says that the approach of demonstration a posteriori can be used to go trace back to assert the a priori existence of God. Article III (i.e., the Five Ways) is a summary or ...
The trademark argument [1] is an a priori argument for the existence of God developed by the French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes.The name derives from the fact that the idea of God existing in each person "is the trademark, hallmark or stamp of their divine creator".