Christopher Hughes on Contingency and Plurality
According to Christopher Hughes, arguments from contingency for the existence of a necessary being are standardly held to depend on two crucial assumptions: a contingency-dependence principle (which may be thought to derive from the Principle of Sufficient Reason), and the existence of a sufficiently inclusive being. The burden of Hughes's contribution to The Puzzle of Existence is to argue that the second assumption can be dispensed with. Let's start by seeing what these two assumptions are, and how they fit into standard arguments. A contingency-dependence principle states that any contingent entity must depend for its existence on some entity outside...
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Christopher Hughes
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Contemporary Thinkers
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Cosmological Argument
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Existence of God
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George Boolos
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Jacob Ross
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Metaphysics
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Modality
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Religion
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