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    argument from a proper basis is an ontological argument for the existence of God related to fideism. Alvin Plantinga argued that belief in God is a properly...
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  • guidance. The Argument from a proper basis argues that belief in God is "properly basic"; that it is similar to statements like "I see a chair" or "I feel...
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  • A cosmological argument, in natural theology, is an argument which claims that the existence of God can be inferred from facts concerning causation, explanation...
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  • teleological argument (from τέλος, telos, 'end, aim, goal'; also known as physico-theological argument, argument from design, or intelligent design argument) is...
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  • ontological argument is a philosophical argument, made from an ontological basis, that is advanced in support of the existence of God. Such arguments tend to...
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  • An argument from nonbelief is a philosophical argument that asserts an inconsistency between the existence of God and a world in which people fail to recognize...
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  • The argument from reason is a transcendental argument against metaphysical naturalism and for the existence of God (or at least a supernatural being that...
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  • The argument from free will, also called the paradox of free will or theological fatalism, contends that omniscience and free will are incompatible and...
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  • The argument from desire is an argument for the existence of the immortality of the soul. The best-known defender of the argument is the Christian writer...
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  • The argument from morality is an argument for the existence of God. Arguments from morality tend to be based on moral normativity or moral order. Arguments...
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  • The argument from degrees, also known as the degrees of perfection argument or the henological argument is an argument for the existence of God first proposed...
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  • The argument from consciousness is an argument for the existence of God that claims characteristics of human consciousness (such as qualia) cannot be explained...
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  • The argument from miracles is an argument for the existence of God that relies on the belief that events witnessed and described as miracles – i.e. as...
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  • As with deductive arguments, biases can distort the proper application of inductive argument, thereby preventing the reasoner from forming the most logical...
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  • The argument from beauty (also the aesthetic argument) is an argument for the existence of a realm of immaterial ideas or, most commonly, for the existence...
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  • The argument from religious experience is an argument for the existence of God. It holds that the best explanation for religious experiences is that they...
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  • Locke also examined the argument from commitment, a form of the ad hominem argument, meaning examining an argument on the basis of whether it stands true...
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  • The argument from poor design, also known as the dysteleological argument, is an argument against the assumption of the existence of a creator God, based...
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  • The argument from love is an argument for the existence of God that suggests the depth, complexity, and universality of love point to a transcendent source...
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  • Metaphysical naturalism (category Use dmy dates from June 2020)
    kind studied by the natural sciences. Methodological naturalism is a philosophical basis for science, for which metaphysical naturalism provides only one...
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  • three main threads; the argument from the wisdom of Jesus, the argument from the claims of Jesus as son of God and the argument from the resurrection.[citation...
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  • Index of philosophy of religion articles (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    Apologetics Argument from a proper basis Argument from beauty Argument from consciousness Argument from degree Argument from desire Argument from free will...
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  • problem of evil. The logical form of the argument tries to show a logical impossibility in the coexistence of a god and evil, while the evidential form...
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    the way it ought to work". Plantinga explains his argument for proper function with reference to a "design plan", as well as an environment in which one's...
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  • C.S. Lewis's argument from reason is a kind of transcendental argument. Transcendental arguments should not be confused with arguments for the existence...
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  • Personifications of death Singularitarianism Taoist Zoroastrian More A proper basis Beauty Consciousness Degree Desire Love Miracles Morality Reason Religious...
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    Zorn's lemma (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    the general argument. Zorn's lemma can be used to show that every vector space V has a basis. If V = {0}, then the empty set is a basis for V. Now, suppose...
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    Pascal's wager (category Arguments for the existence of God)
    Pascal's wager is a philosophical argument advanced by Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), seventeenth-century French mathematician, philosopher, physicist, and...
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  • order to win an argument, especially in the absence of factual evidence. This kind of appeal to emotion is irrelevant to or distracting from the facts of...
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  • transformations. The prefix eigen- is adopted from the German word eigen (cognate with the English word own) for 'proper', 'characteristic', 'own'. Originally...
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