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The Watch Analogy

In order to explain his teleological argument, Paley offers an analogy of finding a watch on a heath. He argues thusly:

1. you fi...

Firstly, we must begin with what Hume defines miracles as. Hume states that a miracle is “a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity or by the interposition of some invisi...

Anselm offers a reduction ad absurdum argument. This is an argument whose denial leads to a contradiction or some other absurdity.

Anselm’s Argument from Proslogian 2 is as follows:
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Thus question was taken directly from Edexcel's June 2015 exam and will be amongst many other areas of focus, a primary way of preparing towards such a challenging examination.

We will fo...

Traditional economic powers like France, USA or the UK are becoming less and less dominant in an evermore competitive internatinal economic arena.

The BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, Indi...