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What is the fallacy of composition as presented in the text?
What is the fallacy of composition as presented in the text?
- Considering the front door's color as irrelevant
- Jumping to conclusions without any evidence
- Inferring that all things in the universe are contingent
- Inferring that a characteristic of a thing applies to the whole thing (correct)
According to Hume, what does the cosmological argument lead us to conclude?
According to Hume, what does the cosmological argument lead us to conclude?
- Contingent things can bring themselves into existence
- All contingent things are impossible
- The universe is entirely contingent
- The fallacy that there must be a necessary being on which all contingent things depend (correct)
What did Martin Luther King say about faith, relating to our understanding of the universe?
What did Martin Luther King say about faith, relating to our understanding of the universe?
- 'We must see the full staircase before having faith'
- 'Faith is the first step without seeing the full staircase' (correct)
- 'Concrete evidence must precede faith'
- 'Faith is based on concrete evidence'
In Aquinas' 3rd way, what does the term 'necessary being' refer to?
In Aquinas' 3rd way, what does the term 'necessary being' refer to?
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What does Mackie object to regarding the idea of a necessary being as proposed by Aquinas?
What does Mackie object to regarding the idea of a necessary being as proposed by Aquinas?
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How does epistemic distance relate to our understanding of Aquinas' 3rd way?
How does epistemic distance relate to our understanding of Aquinas' 3rd way?
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