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Cosmological Argument
Richard Swinburne contends that the cosmological argument is not
deductively valid; if ...premises as true, of deductive arguments as valid, and
of an argument’s use as a proof is not independent of...necessary given
that the premises are true and the argument valid. The other use
concerns what is meant by “necessary...
deductively valid. A valid argument
whose premises are also true is said to be sound. Examples of
valid deductive...invalidate the argument. In
other words, if the argument “A and B; therefore
C” is deductively valid, then the...In
contrast with a deductively valid argument, in an inductive argument
the degree of support will never...
ontological
argument. One of the most important objections to the argument is that
if it were valid, one could...existence. If
Descartes’ method of reasoning were valid, it would seem to follow from
this idea that such... to formulate an ontological
argument. An earlier version of the argument had been vigorously
defended...
concludes: “On the face of it, [the CR
argument] looks valid. It certainly works against the most common...running a program. Clearly, whether that inference is valid
or not turns on a metaphysical question about the...
The argument and thought-experiment now generally known as the Chinese
Room Argument was first published...
formalism: are all logical truths (or semantically valid
formulas) derivable from the axioms. Completeness...prehistory
1.2 The argument in the text
1.3 Einstein’s versions of the argument
2. A popular form...will
distinguish the argument Podolsky laid out in the text from lines of
argument that Einstein himself...
hole argument urges that spacetime substantivalism goes
beyond those bounds.
The hole argument depends...Consequences
7. The Hole Argument in Brief
8. The History of the Hole Argument
8.1 Einstein Falls... Responses to the Hole Argument
10. Broader Significance of the Hole Argument
10.1 A Limit to Scientific...
The Knowledge Argument and Objectivism
5. The Dualist View About the Knowledge Argument
6. Concluding...precursors of this argument in the
literature. Precursors of the Knowledge Argument typically involve ...version of the argument more explicitly.
(V3) Explicit formulation of the knowledge argument (stronger
version...
the structure of valid
arguments. Perhaps to say that an argument is formally valid is to say
that it...will entail that an argument
is valid if and only if all its substitutions are valid, and in the
present...the premises and the conclusion) then the argument is
valid, that is, the conclusion follows deductively...
that argument is of a valid form. Different
logics disagree about which argument forms are
valid.[1]
...conclusion is false, the argument will
be invalid, and if not, then the argument will be valid. The One True
Logic...us
that that ex falso quodlibet, the argument form below, is valid:
A
¬
A
B
However Relevant...
And the “higher” legal norm, in turn, is legally valid
if and only if it has been created in accord with... what makes the California
Constitution legally valid? The answer is that the legal validity of
the Constitution...Constitution. What makes the US Constitution legally valid?
Surely, not the fact that the US Constitution proclaims...
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