The cosmological argument (OCR A-Level Religious Studies): Quizzes
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What type of argument is the Cosmological Argument?
What type of argument is the Cosmological Argument?
Inductive argument
Why is the Cosmological Argument classified as A Posteriori?
Why is the Cosmological Argument classified as A Posteriori?
It is based on experience
What approach does the Cosmological Argument use?
What approach does the Cosmological Argument use?
Natural theology
In Aquinas' First Way, what does motion mean?
In Aquinas' First Way, what does motion mean?
Potentiality to actuality
In Aquinas' example, what makes wood hot?
In Aquinas' example, what makes wood hot?
Actually hot fire
What does Aquinas believe about infinite regress?
What does Aquinas believe about infinite regress?
It is impossible
In the Second Way, what premise states nothing can do what?
In the Second Way, what premise states nothing can do what?
Nothing can cause its own existence
What is God called in Aquinas' Second Way?
What is God called in Aquinas' Second Way?
The Uncaused Causer
What does contingent existence mean in the Third Way?
What does contingent existence mean in the Third Way?
Relies on something else for existence
What type of being does the Third Way conclude God is?
What type of being does the Third Way conclude God is?
A necessary being
What does the Cosmological Argument establish as a strength?
What does the Cosmological Argument establish as a strength?
God's necessity
Who argues the fallacy of composition against the argument?
Who argues the fallacy of composition against the argument?
Hume and Russell
What does Hume reject in his criticism?
What does Hume reject in his criticism?
The possibility of a necessary being
What does physics show according to the weaknesses?
What does physics show according to the weaknesses?
Something can come from nothing