1. Who is considered the author of the Ontological argument? ANS: Saint Anslem 2. The first 3 “Ways” by St. Thomas Aquinas (to prove the existence of God) are called: a. argument from design b. argument from perfection c. cosmological argument d. none of the above. ANS: Cosmological argument 3. Explain the thrid way by Aquinas...which is called the argument from contigency. (2 or 3 sentences) ANS: Contingency can be explained as the possibility of things that come into being and go out of being
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-“The Principles of Nature and of Grace‚ Based on Reason” His conclusion was that the answer is to be found‚ not in the universe of created things‚ but in God. God exists necessarily and is the explanation why anything else exists. LEIBNIZ’s Argument There are 3 basic premises in his reasoning: 1. Everything that exists has an explanation of its existence. 2. If the universe has an explanation of its existence‚ that explanation is God. 3. The universe exists. From these premises one could
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awareness about the damaging effects of smoking‚ it unfairly targets women creating an inaccurate stereotype about those who smoke and raises a logical fallacy in implying that smoking will make one less attractive‚ in order to convey the intended argument against smoking. The advertisement is successful in demonstrating the harmful ways in which smoking can physically affect people. The black and red colors on the ad symbolize black scarred innards‚ or even lungs‚ that are charred due to smoking;
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The two visual systems hypothesis talks about the processing of the visual information in two different routes in the brain (van Polanen & Davare‚ 2015). This idea was first introduced in 1982 when Leslie Ungerleider and Mortimer Mishkin described experiments that distinguished two streams that served different functions(Melvyn A. Goodale‚ 1998). They used the method know as ablation or also called lesioning. Using both recordings from neurons and ablation‚ they found that properties of the ventral
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Cosmological Argument The cosmological argument is the argument that the existence of the world or universe is strong evidence for the existence of a God who created it. The existence of the universe‚ the argument claims‚ stands in need of explanation‚ and the only adequate explanation of its existence is that it was created by God. Like most arguments for the existence of God‚ the cosmological argument exists in several forms; two are discussed here: the temporal‚ kalam cosmological argument (i.e. the
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5‚ No.4‚ 2013 www.iiste.org Understanding the Importance of Visual Merchandising on Store Image and Shopper Behaviours in Home Furnishings Retail Setting Yoo-Kyoung Seock1* Young Eun Lee1 1 Department of Textiles‚ Merchandising and Interiors‚ The University of Georgia‚ Athens‚ Georgia 30602‚ USA * E-mail of the corresponding author: yseock@fcs.uga.edu Abstract The present study attempts to identify the important visual merchandising factors and examine the relationships of those factors
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weaknesses of Aquinas’ Cosmological argument The Cosmological argument attempts to explain that something has caused the universe to exist and this First cause is what we call God. The argument begins with observations that try to support the following statements: • Everything in the universe has a cause • The universe itself must have a cause • To avoid infinite regress of causes there must be an uncaused cause • This uncaused cause is God The argument uses inductive reasoning‚ which means
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The Ontological Argument: An explanation and critical assessment Phil 361 Lec 01 Professor: Reid Buchanan Ryley Braun‚ 10013764 April 16‚ 2010 The ontological argument is an attempt to refute skepticism of God and prove His existence through reason alone. The philosopher‚ Saint Anselm‚ presented his work on the ontological argument‚ or argument from reason‚ in his text the Proslogium. The argument‚ on the surface‚ is very logically convincing and attempts to allure even the skeptic of
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how to do it. Why is that? Visual Literacy allows us to understand what is going on even if there is not a text to go along with the video. Brian Kennedy and our text book both agree that visual literacy is a common language among everyone around the world. However the book go even further into saying that there has to be “visually literate person does not merely possess the capability of vision but goes on to mentally perceive and interpret the meanings of visuals.” (Avgerinou and Ericson‚ 1997)
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Ontological Argument One of the most fascinating arguments for the existence of an all-perfect God is the ontological argument. Ontological arguments are arguments to prove the existence of God based on pure reason alone. They attempt to show that we can deduce God’s existence from‚ so to speak‚ the very definition of God. St. Anselm of Canterbury proposed the first and most well known ontological argument in 1078 in his Proslogion‚ but it was actually Immanuel Kant‚ an 18th century German philosopher
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