God Does Not Necessarily Have to Exist In Descartes’ Meditations‚ he makes the strong claim that God must exist. I will first explain what Descartes’s argument for God’s existence is‚ and then I will attempt to support the argument that God does not need to necessarily exist through objections and replies. Premise 1: “We have an idea of God as an infinite and perfect being.” First‚ Descartes believes that there are properties that are inherently perfect. For example‚ being good is a perfection
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40E 80E 120E 120N TERTIARY COMPUTER MODELING OF SLOPE STABILITY IN MINING THE TAR SAND OF DAHOMEY BASIN‚ SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA David Afolayan ALAO and Mopa BASSAGI DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL SCIENCES‚ UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN P.M.B. 1515‚ ILORIN‚ KWARA STATE‚ NIGERIA Abstract The need to have stable slopes in open pit mining of the tar sand deposit of the Dahomey Basin‚ Southwestern Nigeria is emphasized in this study. In the Loda village‚ Southwestern Nigeria‚ samples of the lateritic
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absorbed his thoroughly explained and persuasive arguments‚
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Outline and discuss the causal argument. Descartes casts everything into doubt in the first meditation‚ including God Himself. He then comes to this disproval of this theory therefore concluding that God exists. This is brought about through the causal argument. Desartes begins this argument with the causal principle. This principle states that there must be at least as much reality in the effcient and total cause as in the effect of the cause. Therefore a cause is essential for an effect
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The topic of abortion has caused much attention.When the topic comes about there are two sided arguments; either you are pro-life or pro-choice. Pro-life supporters support that women should not have a choice to abort the child‚ and it constitutes murder.Pro-choice supporters say that women should have the right to carry the child or abort it. Unlike many other arguments however both parties agree their should be a restricted availability. Many people have different opinions on abortions.Sure
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was a heated debate about the morality of slavery. Supporters of slavery in the 18th century used legal‚ economic‚ and religious arguments to defend slavery. They were able to do so effectively because all three of these reasons provide ample support of the peculiar institution that was so vital to the South. Legally speaking‚ the constitution offered numerous arguments for slavery and clearly protected the protected the people’s rights to own slaves. The 3/5 clause clearly states that slaves are
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unknowable or altogether false. If one chooses to ignore this obvious fact‚ there is little that can be done to argue‚ for argument assumes that rational thought processes are at work. As Hank Hanegraaff has said‚ "Even those who deny reality look both ways before they cross the street." One popular example skeptics use to disprove attainable knowledge is the Brain in the Vat argument. "The Brain in the Vat scenario is a thought experiment designed to show the plausibility of radical skepticism. If we
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dictator. Caesar who wept for the citizens of Rome when they cried and refused the crown three times. Brutus was a betrayer‚ he killed Caesar‚ his loyal‚ benevolent friend and future ruler of Rome. Idea Development Write the body and conclusion of your argument in the space below. Brutus loved Caesar‚ they were best friends. He supported Caesar‚ except in becoming king. Brutus believed that one man should not rule the country. He feared that if Caesar became king the power he gained would cause him to become
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An Argument For Animal Research English 103 Paper #1 Animal Rights Medicine has come a very long way since the days when men used to puncture holes into the skull to release tension or evil spirits. In the last one hundred years‚ for the sake of humanity‚ numerous vaccinations have been developed‚ disease and disorders of all types have been prevented‚ surgical techniques have been advanced‚ drugs have been developed to cure ailments and the list continues endlessly. The progress that has
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a command of God. However‚ there are many oppositions to this theory‚ the most famous being the Euthyphro problem. The Euthyphro problem is known as a dilemma argument‚ meaning the structure is set up as follows; either God’s commands are arbitrary or God’s commands are based simply on his knowledge of right and wrong. This dilemma argument is formulated in such a way that if you believe either statement and its following conclusion to be true‚ the DCT is then inherently false. For example‚ if the
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