1.5 Arguments based on Observation QUOTES Flashcards
32 words, St Thomas Aquinas
Teleological Argument
“Now whatever lacks intelligence cannot move towards and end, unless it be directed by some being endowed with knowledge and intelligence; as the arrow is shot to its mark by the archer.”
18 words, William Paley
Teleological Argument
“This mechanism being observed, the inderence we think is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker.”
10 words, David Hume
Teleological Argument
“We have no data to establish any system of cosmogony.”
40 words, Richard Swinburne
Teleological Argument
“Aquinas’ statement that all things are directed by some mind towards a purpose, and that mind is God, commits the fallacy of begging the question. Things need a purpose, God gives things a purpose, therefore God must be the purpose.”
26 words, Richard Dawkins
Teleological Argument
“Paley’s argument is made with passionate sincerity and is informed by teh best biological scholarship of the day, but it is worng, gloriously and utterly wrong.”
51 words, Gotfried Leibniz
Cosmological Argument
“Suppose the book of the elements in Geometry to have been eternal, one copy always having been written down from an earlier one. It is evident that even though a reason can be given for the present book out of a past one, we should never come to a full reason.”
9 words, David Hume
Cosmological Argument
“Nothing is demonstable, unless the contrary is a contradiction.”
30 words, Immanuel Kant
Cosmological Argument
“We find … the transcendental principle whereby from the contingent we infer a cause. This principle is applicable only in the sensible world; outside that world it has no meaning whatsoever.”
45 words, Fr Friederich Copleston
Cosmological Argument
“This being is either itself the reason for its own existence, or it is not. If it is, well and good. If not, then we must proceed further. But if we proceed to infinity in that sense, then there’s no explanation of existence at all.”
34 words, Betrand Russell
Cosmological Argument
“The word “necessary” I should maintain, can only be applied significantly to propositions. And, in fact, only to such as are analytic -that is to say - such as it is self-contradictory to deny.”
