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	Cosmological Argument (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Leibniz uses the principle to argue that the sufficient reason for the “series of things comprehended in the universe of creatures” (§36) must exist outside this series of contingencies and is found in a necessary being that we call God.
		Kant held that the cosmological argument, in concluding to the existence of a necessary being, argues for the existence of a being whose nonexistence is absolutely inconceivable.
		Accordingly, the cosmological argument presupposes the cogency of the ontological argument.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/cosmological-argument (9532 words)

	Argument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		argument (literature), the brief summary at the beginning of a section of a poem
		Argumentation theory, the science and theory of civil debates
		Argumentative, a type of evidentiary objection to a question for a witness during a trial
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Argument (409 words)

	Siris: On Hume's Purported 'In-Principle Argument' Against Miracles
		It is commonly argued that Hume's "in principle" argument (in section 1 of the Essay on Miracles) against miracles begs the question; on this view, Hume argues that there is completely uniform experience against miracles, and therefore there can't be miracles.
		A common defense of the argument is to argue that Hume's real point is this: A miracle is a violation of a law of nature; law of nature is based on uniform experience; the defender of miracles denies uniform experience; therefore, Hume says, there is no law of nature to violate, and hence no miracle.
		This is not an argument against miracles; it is an argument for a standard of evidence for admission of miracles, and that is a very different thing.
	branemrys.blogspot.com /2005/09/on-humes-purported-in-principle.html (1096 words)

	Identifying Principles
		Principle (2) is no less reliable than principle (3), but if you thought the reasoning above were connected by principle (2) then you might draw the fatal conclusion that rattlesnakes aren't harmful to females.
		Attributing principles with the appropriate degree of generality is difficult because it depends both on guessing at a reasoner's intentions and actually knowing something about the world.
		This principle is highly reliable, but it doesn't connect the reason to the conclusion; i.e., the antecedent applies to the conclusion and the consequent applies to the reason.
	www.csus.edu /indiv/m/mayesgr/phl4/tutorial/phl4rationalrecon2.htm (3377 words)

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		These definitions and principles are not ad hoc in the sense that they were designed to account for the interactions of verbs with a number of different constructions including the ditransitive, the resultative (intransitive and transitive), the “locative” alternation and the caused-motion constructions (intransitive and transitive) (see Goldberg 1995, 2002).
		The theme argument of a change of location predication and a patient argument of a change of state predicate are normally profiled: that is, they are central participants within the scene and are obligatorily accessed for the semantic representation of the scene.
		Arguments that are at all topical should be available for subsequent anaphoric reference, since they are by definition elements that are relevant to the discourse.
	www.princeton.edu /~adele/papers/Israel.doc (7412 words)

	Does the Evidence Confirm Theism More Than Naturalism? by Michael Martin
		The first thing to notice about Schlesinger's argument is that even if T is confirmed more than N by R, this does not mean that one should subscribe to T rather than to N. As we have noted, Schlesinger admits that the initial credibility of the hypothesis affects whether the hypothesis should be subscribed to.
		But even if Principle E were acceptable the argument would not succeed, for other evidence, not considered by Schlesinger, pulls in the other direction cancelling out the confirmatory effect of the evidence he does cite.
		Further, granted Principle E, it is not clear that theism as it is usually understood makes the evidence he cites more probable than naturalism; consequently he is not justified in concluding that the evidence he cites confirms theism more than naturalism.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/michael_martin/schlesinger.html (1512 words)

	Logical Fallacies
		All arguments have the same basic structure: A therefore B. They begin with one or more premises (“A”), which is a fact or assumption upon which the argument is based.
		An argument that is based upon a logical fallacy is therefore not valid.
		Often this argument is implied by emphasizing the many years of experience, or the formal degrees held by the individual making a specific claim.
	www.theness.com /skepticsguide/logicalfallacies.html (1483 words)

	PlanetMath: argument principle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The argument principle may be stated in another form which makes the origin of the name apparent: If a function
		The second integral on the rightmost side equals the change in the argument as one traverses
		This is version 4 of argument principle, born on 2004-09-04, modified 2006-10-10.
	planetmath.org /encyclopedia/ArgumentPrinciple.html (202 words)

	Sample Principles
		Principles are standards or rules from which other rules and conclusions about issues draw support for their defense and standing.
		Moral principles are a subset of principles that refer to humans and their vital interests; moral principles justify accepting moral conclusions (or judgments) about moral issues, usually disputes about what promotes human values e.g., life, liberty, property, happiness, justice, compassion, etc.
		An argument is not a dispute, it is a formal vehicle for attempting to justify publicly a reasonable belief.
	www.csus.edu /indiv/m/merlinos/moralprinc.html (1434 words)

	Sola Scriptura and the Regulative Principle of Worship: Chapter 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The first argument used against the regulative principle of worship is based on a false understanding of the meaning and relationship of sola scriptura, the regulative principle and Christian liberty or adiaphora.
		Therefore, when he says that the same worship principle of “spirit and truth” that is now operative in the old covenant era will also be operative in the new covenant era, he is connecting the strict worship principle that regulated the temple to the new covenant church.
		This liberty, of course, is allowed only within the limits of the strict interpretation of the principles taught in the Word, and in the legitimate application of those principles, and applies to the regulation of the practical life of the individual and of the Church, in detailed adjustments to changing circumstances.
	www.reformed.com /pub/sola_5.htm (17843 words)

	In Depth Bible Studies
		So far we have seen that the initial argument that tithing was before the Law of Moses did not on its own prove that tithing should continue after the Law of Moses under the New Covenant.
		We simply assumed that above for the sake of argument to show that even if it was the case that would not lead to the conclusion that Christians are required to tithe today, especially not to the conclusion that Christians are required to tithe to local church leaders.
		The failure of this first initial pro-tithing argument is even more apparent now that we have shown the underlying premise that tithing was around from the beginning to be biblically unsupportable and a mere assumption.
	www.biblestudying.net /tithing2.html (4199 words)

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		The argument from ignorance basically states that a specific belief is true because we donât know that it isnât true.
		Such arguments (also called teleological) are based on a reversal of cause and effect, because they argue that something is caused by the ultimate effect that it has, or purpose that is serves.
		This logical fallacy is the argument that a position is not consistent or tenable because accepting the position means that the extreme of the position must also be accepted.
	www.theness.com /logicalfallacies.html (1463 words)

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		Still, the principles of argument realization must apply to the semantic decompositions of propositions, not the semantics of verbs in isolation.
		The Argument Realization Principle is further undermined by the fact that verbs of emission and ingestion are not the only class of verbs that can appear without an overt theme argument, despite an overt directional phrase.
		In the case of verbs of emission such as sneeze, the single profiled sneezer participant is fused with the source argument of the construction.
	www.princeton.edu /~adele/Israel2.doc (7544 words)

	Ontological Arguments for the Existence of God
		The ontological argument for the existence of God is unique among arguments for God's existence in a number of ways.
		He assumes for the sake of argument that the atheist is correct to believe that God does not exist in reality, but from this assumption he shows that the atheist's beliefs lead to a contradiction.
		In Anselm's argument and the arguments given in Descartes's fifth Meditation, the analysis of the definition of God maintains that God must exist because God necessarily exists or because God's essence is existence.
	apologetics.johndepoe.com /onto.html (3402 words)

	argument.htm Argument Principle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		, the argument of f(z) may have changed by a multiple of 2
		As w traverses f(c), the number of times the argument of w changes by a multiple of 2
		The Argument Principle says that the winding number of f(C) is Z
	www2.math.uic.edu /~lewis/hon201/argument.htm (430 words)

	Cosmology Curiosity: Anthropic principle & the teleological argument
		A teleological argument (or a design argument) is an argument for the existence of God or a creator based on perceived evidence of order, purpose, design and/or direction in nature.
		The teleological argument can be traced to Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine of Hippo, and Aquinas, among others.
		Of late, the anthropic principle and intelligent design movement would appear to be the teleological argument's most recent versions.
	woodside.blogs.com /cosmologycuriosity/2006/11/anthropic_princ.html (786 words)

	THE TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT AND THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE
		First proposed by Brandon Carter in 1974,{5} the Anthropic Principle has assumed a number of different forms, generating a great deal of confusion concerning what it is precisely that the principle means to assert.
		The failure of the ontological argument as a piece of natural theology is irrelevant to the coherence of this conception of God.
		The truth in Earman's argument is the same point made by Deist satires of the teleological argument: the mud worms could not infer that their existence was the target at which the Creator aimed nor that the Creator was some Great Mud Worm.
	www.leaderu.com /offices/billcraig/docs/teleo.html (8662 words)

	Zeno against plurality
		The argument is contained in 4=B1 and 3=B2 (from Simplicius’ commentary on Aristotle’s Physics).
		But there is a problem with the text, and some of the argument is garbled or lost.
		The amended principle is true, and so the resulting argument’s premises are both true.
	faculty.washington.edu /smcohen/320/zeno2.htm (967 words)

	Existence of God
		This summarises many of the arguments made by the various philosophers and theologians, highly recommended for beginner to intermediate level.
		The Anthropic Principle is an attempt to explain the observed fact that the fundamental constants of physics and chemistry are just right or fine-tuned to allow the universe and life at we know it to exist.
		Design and the Anthropic Principle by Hugh Ross, Ph.D. The Anthropic Cosmological Principle.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/rossuk/existenc.htm (1708 words)

	Math 132 Applet 10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Observe that the number of zeroes inside the circle, minus the number of poles, equals the number of times the image winds anticlockwise around the origin.
		This is the argument principle, and it holds true for any simple closed curve, not just the circle.
		Try creating some closed curves by dragging the mouse on the left half-plane to check this.
	www.math.ucla.edu /~tao/java/Argument.html (165 words)

	Visualizing complex analytic functions using domain coloring
		Before we proceed, let me also point out that if f is the identity function, f (z)=z, then the picture in the z plane will of course look exactly like the coloring chosen in the w plane.
		The second one shows argument together with a grid of unit side length, the region colored blue being mapped into the square with corners 0, 1, i, 1+i.
		Let M be a domain (an open connected set) in the complex plane, and suppose that f is analytic in M (no singularities allowed!).
	www.mai.liu.se /~halun/complex/domain_coloring-symbol.html (4234 words)

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