Lexicon of Arguments

Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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I 89
God/Hume: you can think of God in a negative way: as a cause of the principles, insofar atheism is valid and the finality (goal, purpose in the world) returns.
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II 253
God/necessity/existence/Hume: for example, suppose the expression "necessary existence" would make sense: why could this necessarily not be the material universe instead of God?
Matter could well possess a number of properties unknown to us,...
II 254
...which, if known, would cause us to consider the non-existence of matter unimaginable.
Whoever does not want to acknowledge this, however, proves to be biased towards God's existence.
Infinity/Demea: Demea has conceded that the chain of causes possibly goes back to infinity. But how can this have a cause?
Vs: the concept of cause implies a temporal sequence and thus a beginning.
In addition: what reasonable need is there at all for an explanation of the series of causes when the world is infinite and eternal?
If I can give an explanation for each of twenty objects of a class, the further question about the cause of the whole class would seem unreasonable.

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