TY - JOUR
T1 - Yet another new cosmological argument
AU - Weaver, Christopher Gregory
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/8/1
Y1 - 2016/8/1
N2 - I argue that the existence of a necessary concrete being can be derived from an exceedingly weak causal principle coupled with two contingent truths one of which falls out of very popular positions in contemporary analytic metaphysics. I then show that the argument resists a great many objections commonly lodged against natural theological arguments of the cosmological variety.
AB - I argue that the existence of a necessary concrete being can be derived from an exceedingly weak causal principle coupled with two contingent truths one of which falls out of very popular positions in contemporary analytic metaphysics. I then show that the argument resists a great many objections commonly lodged against natural theological arguments of the cosmological variety.
KW - Causation
KW - Cosmological argument
KW - Purely contingent facts
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U2 - 10.1007/s11153-015-9534-1
DO - 10.1007/s11153-015-9534-1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84938796747
SN - 0020-7047
VL - 80
SP - 11
EP - 31
JO - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
JF - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
IS - 1
ER -