Proof by contradiction

Study Questions: 1. What is the difference between logical possibility and physical possibility? Logical possibility is anything that follows the laws of logic. These are laws that determine what is real, and what is not. For a situation to be logically possible, it also has to follow the law of non-contradictory. This law states that nothing can be both be at the same time and event. For example, time travelling is logically impossible because no one can be at the present and the future at…

Theists think that it is ridiculous that the Universe can exist without a cause, and, have come to the assumption that the universe was created by God, who exists without a cause, complete with a range of intrinsic traits and values. We can see that although theists believe in god(s) and atheists don 't, both have some similar assumptions about how the universe came to exist. St Anselm (1033-1109), who was the Catholic archbishop of Canterbury and a Doctor of the Church, first created the…

standards heretofore related to religion now endorsed anything and everything that compounded that religious rejection. Here is how another website described the fundamentalist fervor at the time. "Java man was trumpeted around the world as indisputable proof of human evolution. Textbooks and magazines were filled with fanciful reconstructing of ‘Java…

The text “Plato’s Apology” written by Plato, serves as a record of Socrates’s defense to the Athenian court. Within this dialogue Socrates provides insight into how he goes about doing philosophy, in which way he believes that he is wise, and also uses the elenchus to counter the two charges that are brought against him. Plato’s apology details how Socrates goes about philosophy. Socrates when told by his friend Chaerephron that the Delphic Oracle that Socrates is the wisest man refuses the idea…

Many religious individuals have a creational story in which they feel is how the universe was created, yet again these stories have no evidence to support it occurs; however, there is scientific proof that the universe was create from the Big Bang. “The Big Bang theory successfully describes how expansion and cooling of this unimaginably intense mixture…could have led to the present universe of stars and galaxies…explains several aspects of today’s…

Atheist Proofs In the article “On Being an Atheist,” McCloskey delivers numerous opinions that seek to validate the non-existence of God. This argument is known as Atheism. He does this using quite a few claims made by theists. The claims are separated into numerous segments upon which he lays his contradicting opinions. In the beginning, he delivers a short summary of the arguments offered by theists. He refers to the theists as ‘proofs’ and claims that not a single one of the proofs make…

inferences for this proof. So how can we come to know that God is none greater than can be conceived if we are designating our own definition of a maximally perfect being. Anselm portrays that God can be known solely from reasoning in thoughts rather than from impression of god himself in our knowledge. According to Hume and his empirical beliefs in “Dialogues concerning Natural Religion”, “The only manner to prove that a being a priori is if its inverse entails a contradiction” (Hume, XI). But…

Kant, who follows Hume’s beliefs, at one point blatantly equates the dark skin of a man to be, “clear proof that what he said was stupid”. In addition to that he argues “the savages” only have trivial feelings, that the difference in intellect (between whites and blacks) is as different as their skin color, and that only whites have perfection. Jefferson is an interesting mix of contradictions in his writings. He seems to share the other author’s ideas, that blacks are inferior to whites,…

When analyzing an argument we must “judge the claim that’s made and the reasons offered for it.” (Porter, 2002, pg. 2) A claim needs a foundation of support before it should be believed. Strong, valid arguments should be free of contradictions and logical fallacies. While analyzing the argument “A Discourse on God”, I will show the different components that are that are weak. I will point out the fallacies within the arguments and explain why they would be considered fallacious. Throughout the…

Socrates' claim in the Apology that "the unexamined life is not worth living for a human being," had much meaning to it. For Socrates, philosophizing is the way to answer “what is the best way of life”. It is important to use our reason to discover the truth on how to live a happy life. Personally, living life following blind faith, believing things just because it is heard from another, living like a sheep, is not the way to know what makes you happy. The only way to find what will truly make…