Exam 4: Plato the Beginning of Everything

Lammenranta asserts that "because Descartes's proof presupposes that reason is reliable, it is hard to see how he could remove these doubts by it."

Conway says, "In God there is neither ________ nor ________, nor composition, nor division of parts."

For James, a ____________ is one which does not appeal as a real possibility to him to whom it is proposed.

Conway says, "let us suppose the duration of this world to be 600,000 years, or any other number of years, as great as can be by any reason conceived. Now, I demand whether it could be that the world was created before this time? If they deny it, they limit the power of God to a certain number of years; if they affirm it, they allow time to be before all time, which is a manifest contradiction."

What is Paley's argument when he uses the idea of "laws of metallic nature"?

Nietzsche's famous line, "God is dead," is not to be taken literally; instead, it indicates the long-standing reliance on religion as the only possible ...

Conway says, "Yet that indifference of acting, or not acting, can by no means be said to be in God; because this were an inception, and would make God like corruptible creatures; for this indifference of Will is the foundation of all change and corruptibility in creatures; so that there would be no evil in creatures if they were not changeable."

Parsons claims that "whatever is brought about by nature or humans is __________ created by God."

Anselm concludes that "Therefore, if that, than which nothing greater can be conceived, exists in the understanding alone, the very being, than which nothing greater can be conceived, is one, than which a greater can be conceived. But obviously this is ..."

Philo says, "Our ideas reach no further than our experience: We have no experience of divine attributes and operations. I need not conclude my syllogism: You can draw the inference yourself." Draw the inference.

Philo asserts that "That all inferences concerning fact are founded on _________."

In the reading, Philo says, "Our ideas reach no further than our experience: We have no experience of divine attributes and operations. I need not conclude my syllogism: You can draw the inference yourself." The following conclusion is implied by Philo: Our ideas cannot reach to divine attributes and operations.

James says, "The thesis I defend is this: Our ______________ not only lawfully may, but must, decide an option between propositions, whenever it is a genuine option that cannot by its nature be decided on intellectual grounds."

In one of his proofs for the existence of God, Aquinas says, "We see that things which lack awareness, such as mere physical objects, act always, or nearly always, in the same way. Hence it is plain that they achieve this, not by chance, but by design."

For Anselm, "A thing may be conceived in two ways: (1) when the word signifying it is semantical; (2) when the thing itself is syntactical."

Conway says, "And farther, seeing it is already demonstrated, that God is a necessary agent, and does whatever He can do, it must be that He does multiply, and yet still continues to multiply and augment the essences of creatures ..."

For Lammenranta, "The problem is not whether knowledge is possible. It is whether ..."

The speaker in the reading concludes by saying, "for we must remember that I who am the speaker, and you who are the judges, are only mortal men, and we ought to accept the tale which is __________ and enquire no further."

Clifford says, "The question of right or wrong has to do with the ________ of his belief, not the matter of it; not what it was, but how he got it; not whether it turned out to be true or false, but whether he had a right to believe on such evidence as was before him."

Clifford says, "In the two supposed cases which have been considered, it has been judged wrong to believe on _________________, or to nourish belief by suppressing doubts and avoiding investigation."