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Ursprungligen postat av
Myein
En korrigering: Premissen i de kosmologiska argumenten har ursprungligen inte utgått ifrån att "allt som existerar har en orsak". Ingen av de filosofer som genom historien har försvarat argumentet har presenterat det på ett sådant vis. Den felaktiga premissen kommer huvudsakligen ifrån misstolkningar gjorda av kritiker till argumentet.
Du har rätt, det jag refererade till kallas "The kalam argument".
1. Everything that has a beginning of its existence has a cause of its existence.
Allt som har börjat existera har en orsak.
Är det där en korrekt version av det kosmologiska argumentet?
1. A contingent being (a being such that if it exists, it could have not-existed or could cease to exist) exists.
2. This contingent being has a cause of or explanation for its existence.
3. The cause of or explanation for its existence is something other than the contingent being itself.
4. What causes or explains the existence of this contingent being must either be solely other contingent beings or include a non-contingent (necessary) being.
5. Contingent beings alone cannot provide a completely adequate causal account or explanation for the existence of a contingent being.
6. Therefore, what causes or explains the existence of this contingent being must include a non-contingent (necessary) being.
7. Therefore, a necessary being (a being such that if it exists, it cannot not-exist) exists.
8. The universe is contingent.
9. Therefore, the necessary being is something other than the universe.