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  2. Existence of God - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of ...

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    The One Possible Basis for a Demonstration of the Existence of God. Translated by Gordon Treash. New York: Abaris Books. Immanuel Kant (1992). "The Only Possible Argument In Support of a Demonstration of the Existence of God". In David Walford (ed.). Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant.

  4. Ontological argument - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Five Ways (Aquinas) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Transcendental argument for the existence of God - Wikipedia

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    The Transcendental Argument for the existence of God (TAG) is an argument that attempts to prove the existence of God by appealing to the necessary conditions for the possibility of experience and knowledge. [1] A version was formulated by Immanuel Kant in his 1763 work The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence ...

  7. Gödel's ontological proof - Wikipedia

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    Gödel's ontological proof is a formal argument by the mathematician Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) for the existence of God.The argument is in a line of development that goes back to Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109).

  8. Kalam cosmological argument - Wikipedia

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    According to atheist philosopher Quentin Smith, "a count of the articles in the philosophy journals shows that more articles have been published about Craig's defense of the Kalam argument than have been published about any other philosopher's contemporary formulation of an argument for God's existence." [20]

  9. The Existence of God (book) - Wikipedia

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    The Existence of God is a 1979 book by British philosopher of religion Richard Swinburne, [1] [2] claiming the existence of the Abrahamic God on rational grounds. The argument rests on an updated version of natural theology with biological evolution using scientific inference, mathematical probability theory, such as Bayes' theorem, and of inductive logic. [3]