Regress argument
Regress argument The Regress Argument (also known as The Problem of Criterion ... has to be justified. According to this argument, any proposition requires a justification. However, ...
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Talk:Regress argument
Talk:Regress argument Is there any reason this shouldn't ... that this article does justice to the regress argument. Merely dismissing it as logical false seems ... be justified somehow. This refutation of the regress argument begs the question, by assuming ...
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Homunculus argument
Homunculus argument To meet Wikipedia's quality standards, this ... or section may require cleanup. A homunculus argument accounts for a phenomenon in terms of ... if they are the screen. The Homunculus Argument shows this is not a full explanation ... gazes at the retinas. A more sophisticated argument might propose that the images on the ... In the theory of vision the Homunculus Argument invalidates theories that do not explain ' ...
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Cosmological argument
Cosmological argument The cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of God. It is also known as the first cause argument for the existence of God, or the prime mover argument. There are three versions of this ...
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Talk:Cosmological argument
Talk:Cosmological argument Would it make sense to say that ... There are strong arguments against the cosmological argument, which are [...] -- but I believe in God ... under the impression that the first cause argument is a type of cosmological argument [1]. We can certainly have First cause redirect to Cosmological argument, but we must explain that the ...
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Third Man Argument
Third Man Argument The Third Man Argument (commonly refered to as TMA), first offered ... man, thereby creating the name "Third man argument." The Parmenides dialogue, thought to be written ... TMA given by Parmenides. The Third Man Argument states that there is a problem with ... scholars have debated the soundness of the argument. Among these philosophers, Vlastos argued that ...
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Ryle's regress
Ryle's regress In philosophy, Ryle's regress is a classic argument against cognitivist theories, and concludes that such ... the intellectualist legend results in an infinite regress of thought: According to the legend, whenever ... to act? The endlessness of this implied regress shows that the application of the ...
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Transcendental argument for the existence of God
Transcendental argument for the existence of God To meet ... or section may require cleanup. The Transcendental Argument is an argument for the existence of God which attempts ... in his 1763 work The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the ... methods of apologetical argumentation. Teleologically the Transcendental argument lies in opposition to the anthropic ...
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Talk:Intelligent design/Archive 17
... people, books and ways in which the argument was made, otherwise, I feel 'believed' covers ... about what is perceived to be the argument by IDists. This is a description of that argument. If you think it is an incorrect ... criticism is a counter to Dembski's argument of irreducible complexity, namely that "no pre ... the quote is not from Dembski's argument, it is from an article explicitly ...
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Consciousness studies: The conflict (Psychology wiki)
... this 'intellectualist legend' results in an infinite regress of thought: "According to the legend, whenever ... to act? The endlessness of this implied regress shows that the application of the criterion ... to break into the circle." Ryle's regress is an adaptation of the regress argument in the philosophy of knowledge (epistemology). ...
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