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| x Plantinga's free will defense |
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Alvin Plantinga |
Alvin Plantinga's version of the free will defense is an attempt to refute the logical problem of evil, the argument that to posit the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient, wholly good god in an evil world constitutes a logical contradiction....
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| x Intelligent Design |
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The theory of intelligent design (ID) holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection. ID is thus a scientific disagreement with...
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| x Loch Ness Monster |
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The Loch Ness Monster (Scottish Gaelic: Niseag) is a cryptid that is reputed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in Scotland and elsewhere, though its description varies from one account to...
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| x Argument from miracles |
The argument from miracles is an argument for the existence of God relying on eyewitness testimony of the occurrence of miracles (usually taken to be physically impossible/extremely improbable events) to establish the active intervention of a...
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| x Argument from morality |
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The argument from morality is an argument for the existence of God. Many variations on the argument exist; they all start from a claim about morality (either that moral objectivity exists in the world or that there must be a moral order in the...
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| x Absolute Infinite |
The Absolute Infinite is mathematician Georg Cantor's concept of an "infinity" that transcended the transfinite numbers. Cantor equated the Absolute Infinite with God. He held that the Absolute Infinite had various mathematical properties, including...
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| x Transcendental argument for the existence of God |
The Transcendental Argument for the Existence of God (TAG) is the argument that attempts to prove God's existence by arguing that logic, morals, and science ultimately presuppose a theistic worldview, and that God must be the source of logic and...
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| x Christological argument |
The Christological argument for the existence of God is based on certain claims about Jesus. The argument, which exists in several forms, holds that if these claims are valid, one should accept God exists. There are three main threads:
The essential...
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| x Witness argument |
The witness argument is an argument that is meant to help prove the existence of God, based on the assumption that many people have claimed to have personal experience with God.
In the Old Testament there are many accounts of interactions with God....
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| x Kalam cosmological argument | William Lane Craig |
The Kalām cosmological argument is a variation of the cosmological argument that argues for the existence of a First Cause for the universe. Its origins can be traced to medieval Jewish, Christian and Muslim thinkers, but most directly to Islamic...
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| x Primum movens |
Primum movens (Latin), usually referred to as the Prime mover or first cause in English, is a term used in the philosophy of Aristotle, in the theological cosmological argument for the existence of God, and in cosmogony, the source of the cosmos or ...
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| x Argument from a proper basis |
The 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 basic belief, and so no basis for belief in God is necessary.
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| x Trademark argument |
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René Descartes |
The trademark argument is an a priori argument for the existence of God developed by French philosopher and mathematician, René Descartes. The argument, though similar to the ontological argument, differs in some respects, since it seeks to prove...
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| x Argument from Desire |
The argument from desire is an argument for the existence of God. It is most known in recent times through the writings of C. S. Lewis, for whom it played pivotal role in his own conversion to theism and thence to Christianity.
As a syllogism it can...
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| x Argument from beauty |
The argument from beauty (also the aesthetic argument) is an argument for the existence of God.
That beauty transcends its physical manifestations and points towards the existence of God is a major theme in the writings of St Augustine. The most...
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| x Argument from religious experience |
The Argument from religious experience is an argument for the existence of God, as against materialism.
Its logical structure is essentially as follows:
Points 2, 3 and 4 are relatively un-controversial, and the argument is formally valid, so...
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| x Argument from degree |
The argument from degrees or the degrees of perfection argument is an argument for the existence of God first proposed by mediaeval Roman Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas as one of the five ways to philosophically argue for God in his Summa...
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| x Argument from consciousness |
The argument from consciousness is an argument for the existence of God based on consciousness.
The argument may be stated in inductive or deductive form
Given theism and naturalism as live options fixed by our background beliefs, theism provides a...
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| x Ontological argument |
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Anselm of Canterbury |
An ontological argument for the existence of God (or simply ontological argument) is any one of a category of arguments for the existence of God. The exact criteria for the classification of ontological arguments are not widely agreed, but the...
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| x Necessary Existent |
The Necessary Existent is part of some versions of the Ontological argument for the existence of God, an argument used particularly in Islamic and Christian religious traditions. Like the ontological argument itself, it is in the form of an a priori...
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| x Argument from Reason |
The Argument from Reason is an argument for the existence of God (at least as a supernatural instantiater of human reason) largely developed by C.S. Lewis.
C.S. Lewis originally posited the argument as follows:
The argument against materialism holds...
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| x Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit |
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Richard Dawkins | The God Delusion |
The Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit is a counter-argument to the modern form of the argument from design. It was introduced by Richard Dawkins in chapter 4 "Why there almost certainly is no God" of his 2006 book The God Delusion.
Richard Dawkins begins...
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| x Russell's teapot |
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Russell's teapot, sometimes called the celestial teapot or cosmic teapot, is an analogy first coined by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) to illustrate the idea that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making scientifically...
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| x Incompatible-properties argument |
The incompatible-properties argument is the idea that no description of God is consistent with reality. For example, if one takes the definition of God to be described fully from the Bible, then the claims of what properties God has described...
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| x Problem of evil |
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In the philosophy of religion, the problem of evil is the question of how to explain evil if there exists a deity that is omnibenevolent, omnipotent, and omniscient (see theism). Some philosophers have claimed that the existences of such a god and...
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| x Argument from nonbelief | Theodore Drange |
The argument from nonbelief (or the argument from divine hiddenness) is a philosophical argument against the existence of God. The premise of the argument is that if God existed (and wanted humanity to know it), he would have brought about a...
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| x Argument from free will |
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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 that any conception of God that incorporates both properties is therefore inherently...
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| x Theological noncognitivism |
Theological noncognitivism is the argument that religious language, and specifically words like "God", are not cognitively meaningful. It is sometimes considered to be synonymous with Ignosticism.
In a nutshell, a theological noncognitivist: 1....
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| x Argument from poor design |
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The dysteleological argument or argument from poor design is an argument against the existence of God, specifically against the existence of a creator God (in the sense of a God that directly created all species of life). It is based on the...
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| x Universal grammar | Noam Chomsky |
Universal grammar is a theory in linguistics, usually credited to Noam Chomsky, that the ability to learn grammar is hard-wired into the brain. The theory suggests that linguistic ability manifests itself without being taught, and that there are...
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| x Psychological nativism |
In the field of psychology, nativism is the view that certain skills or abilities are 'native' or hard wired into the brain at birth. This is in contrast to empiricism, the 'blank slate' or tabula rasa view, which states that the brain has inborn...
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| x Spontaneous generation |
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Aristotle |
Spontaneous generation or equivocal generation is an obsolete principle regarding the origin of life from inanimate matter, which held that this process was a commonplace and everyday occurrence, as distinguished from univocal generation, or...
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| x Theistic evolution |
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Theistic evolution or evolutionary creation is a concept that asserts that classical religious teachings about God are compatible with the modern scientific understanding about biological evolution. In short, theistic evolutionists believe that...
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| x Iron-sulfur world theory |
The iron–sulfur world theory is a set of proposals for the origin of life and the early evolution of life advanced by Günter Wächtershäuser, a Munich patent lawyer with a degree in chemistry who had been encouraged and supported by philosopher Karl...
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| x Twin Earth thought experiment | Hilary Putnam | Meaning and Reference |
The Twin Earth thought experiment was presented by philosopher Hilary Putnam in his 1973 paper "Meaning and Reference" and subsequent 1975 paper "The Meaning of 'Meaning'", as an early argument for what has subsequently come to be known as semantic...
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| x Evolution |
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Al-Jahiz |
Evolution is any change across successive generations in the inherited characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and...
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| x RNA world hypothesis |
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The RNA world hypothesis proposes that self-replicating ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules were precursors to current life based on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), RNA and proteins. RNA is able both to store genetic information, like DNA, and to catalyze...
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| x Plank of Carneades | Carneades |
In ethics, the plank of Carneades is a thought experiment first proposed by Carneades of Cyrene; it explores the concept of self-defense in relation to murder.
In the thought experiment, there are two shipwrecked sailors, A and B. They both see a...
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| x Li |
Li （理）is a concept found in Neo-Confucian Chinese philosophy. It refers to the underlying reason and order of nature as reflected in its organic forms.
It may be translated as rational principle or law. It was central to Zhu Xi's integration of...
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| x Violinist |
The Violinist is a famous thought experiment first posed by Judith Jarvis Thomson in 1971.
The "famous violinist" thought experiment asks a person to consider the ethics of a scenario where they wake to find themselves in a hospital serving as life...
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| x General relativity |
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Albert Einstein |
General relativity, or the general theory of relativity, is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1916 and the current description of gravitation in modern physics. General relativity generalises special relativity and...
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| x Billions of Cameras and Sensors Everywere | |||||
| x Time of Millions of Events | |||||
| x Position Of Everyone and Everything - Who was at the scene of a crime? | |||||
| x How to Save, Organize and Protect Information from Destruction and Abuse | |||||
| x War Without Death or Serious Distruction - Example: Destroying 1000 transformers near seat of power |
There are two sides to this concept.
One is to use technology to make a war unpalatable to any state or power and otherwise eliminate any incentive for undertaking one for gain. The second is to permit stopping an attack without the losses that... |
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| x Distributed AWACS and JSTARS | |||||
| x Pilotless Air Superiority and Ground Attack | |||||
| x Automated Supply Chain | |||||
| x All the Worlds Information as Databases and Symantic Webs Stored and Processed In Clouds | |||||
| x Nimby Islands (Not In My Backyard) to do things nobody wants in their back yard. |
After Hurricane Katrina a large part of US refining capacity was offline for a long period. The President asked Congress for fast track legislation to allow more refineries to be built. (Capacity was already low). Of course by the time new...
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| x Nimby Islands to provide profit for Seasteading.org | |||||
| x Cashless / Paperless - Commerce, Banking, Investment And Government | |||||
| x No Manual Transfer of Information form one system to another - Indicate Source Record for Confirmation of Ownership and Amount and Balance Ledger Entries | |||||
| x Universal Information Identifiers | |||||
| x Free Outstanding Education | |||||
| x Laptop for Every Child becomes Laptop for Every Person | |||||
| x All the Worlds Information / History Gathered, Interpreted and Organized Using Knowledge Representation Tools | |||||
| x Paperless Parametric Design | |||||
| x Very Powerful Digital Assistants - In your office, your phone, your car and by proxy in other's cars and computers. | |||||
