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The argument from laws of nature reassessed
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God's existence is just brute, does not seem plausible, and so it is probably reasonable as it stands provides that the idea that an object might be identical to one of its properties makes sense. A major motive behind the doctrine that God's essence is identical with His existence is belief in divine simplicity. There is a strong tendency to associate complexity with the possibility of nonexistence. It is natural to begin the discussion by looking at the arguments Aquinas uses in the Summa T...
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- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis Publisher's website
- Host title:
- Reason, faith and history: philosophical essays for Paul Helm
- Pages:
- 69-81
- Publication date:
- 2008-01-01
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- 9780754609261
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- 2008
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version can be found from Taylor and Francis at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603865
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