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| x Pascal's Wager |
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Philosophical Idea | Existence of God |
Pascal's Wager (or Pascal's Gambit) is a suggestion posed by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal that even though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should "wager" as though God exists, because so living has...
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| x Chinese room |
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Philosophical Idea |
The Chinese Room argument, also referred to as The Chinese Box, comprises a thought experiment and associated arguments by John Searle (Searle 1980), who attempts to show that a symbol-processing machine like a computer can never be properly...
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| x Teleological argument |
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Existence of God |
A teleological argument, or argument from design, is an argument for the existence of God or a creator based on perceived evidence of order, purpose, design, or direction — or some combination of these — in nature. The word "teleological" is derived...
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| x Watchmaker analogy |
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Existence of God |
The watchmaker analogy, or watchmaker argument, is a teleological argument for the existence of God. By way of an analogy, the argument states that design implies a designer. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the analogy was used (by Descartes and...
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