Lexicon of Arguments

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Dennett I 35
Evolution/Paley: Thesis: There is no design without designers. - A clock will never be composed of pieces by itself.
Dennett: This is anticipated by Hume.
Hume/Dennettt: But likewise Hume expresses himself quite differently: "If now it were discovered that God himself had only imitated others?" (Embodied in the figure of Philo). - But this view was denied for fear of persecution.
Dennett I 59
Evolution/Darwin/Dennettt: if one found a composite organ that was not formed by successive amendments the theory would collapse.
>D. Hume, >Watchmaker, >Evolution, >Darwinism, cf. >Creationism, >God,
>Complexity, >Parts, >Wholes, cf. >Mereology.

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