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A posteriori
Based on evidence or experience
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Inductive
Argument constructed on possibly true facts, leading to a probable or likely conclusion
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Cosmological
Argument for the existence of God based on the existence of the universe
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God of classical theism
Relating to the concepts of God of the Western monotheistic faiths
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Aquinas
Author of Summa Theologica
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Ex nihilo
Relating to creation, meaning 'out of nothing'
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Infinite regress
Chain of cause or sequence of reasoning that can never come to an end
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Unmoved mover
That which causes change and motion to start and stop
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Contingency
Beings that depend on something else for their existence
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Necessary being
Concept of an existent being which is not dependent on others for its existence. The source of existence for all contingent beings.
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William Lane Craig
American Christian apologist who revived the Kalam Cosmological argument
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Potential infinite
Something that has the potential to carry on if effort were applied to it
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Actually infinite
Something that is actually infinite in extent; never ending sets of things or operations
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Phallacy of composition
Philosophical idea that what is true of the parts is not necessarily true of the whole
