A Non-Leibnizian Cosmological Argument
In my last Sobel post, I reconstructed the cosmological argument Sobel attributes to Leibniz in such a way that there was no obvious contradiction in the premises by using Leibniz's own resources. Here I want to try to produce an argument with more widely accepted premises. Recall that Sobel's reconstruction is as follows: (1)The World - the Cosmos - exists. (2) The World is contingent, it is a contingent entity. (3) For everything that exists - for every fact and every existent entity - there is a sufficient reason for its existence. (4) The sufficient reason for the existence of...
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Agent Causation
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Causation
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Contemporary Thinkers
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Cosmological Argument
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Events
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Existence of God
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Free Will
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Jordan Howard Sobel
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Metaphysics
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Ontology
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Mind
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Philosophy of Religion
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