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Showing posts with label Mersenne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mersenne. Show all posts
Thursday, July 5, 2018

Existence and arbitrary parameters

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Suppose vague existence and vague identity are impossible. Consider cases where a seemingly insignificant difference makes a difference as t...
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Monday, October 13, 2014

Not a finetuning argument

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In The Impiety... (1624), as part of the 6th argument for the existence of God, Mersenne writes: The proportion found between all the bodi...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Another argument from Mersenne

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In The Impiety of Deists, etc. , Mersenne also gives this theistic argument: And if there is no God, no independent being, it wou...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Mersenne's supreme bad vs. supreme good argument

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In his 1624 The Impiety of Deists, Atheists and Libertines of This Time... (dedicated to Cardinal Richelieu, by the way), Mersenne give...
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