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Plantinga's argument ( in a truncated form ) is that " It is possible that God, even being omnipotent, could not create a world with free creatures who never choose evil.
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Plantinga's contributions to epistemology include an argument which he dubs " Reformed epistemology ".
Plantinga's evolutionary argument against naturalism is also discussed in the later chapters of Warrant and Proper Function.
In Plantinga's evolutionary argument against naturalism, he argues that the truth of evolution is an epistemic defeater for naturalism ( i. e. if evolution is true, it undermines naturalism ).
Plantinga's and is
As an example, a critic of Plantinga's idea of " a mighty nonhuman spirit " causing natural evils may concede that the existence of such a being is not logically impossible but argue that due to lacking scientific evidence for its existence this is very unlikely and thus it is an unconvincing explanation for the presence of natural evils.
One of Plantinga's brothers, Cornelius " Neal " Plantinga, Jr., is a theologian and the former president of Calvin Theological Seminary.
Plantinga's older daughter, Jane Plantinga Pauw, is a pastor at Rainier Beach Presbyterian Church ( PCUSA ) in Seattle, Washington, and his younger daughter, Ann Kapteyn, is a missionary in Cameroon working for Wycliffe Bible Translators.
Plantinga's proper function account argues that as a necessary condition of having warrant is that one's " belief-forming and belief-maintaining apparatus of powers " are functioning properly —" working the way it ought to work ".
" Plantinga's criticism is based on his interpretation of Aquinas's discussion of it, from which he concludes that if God is identical with properties of God such as goodness etc., then God is a property ; and a property is not a person.
Theodicy is one important aspect of such arguments, and Alvin Plantinga's arguments have been highly influential in this area.
Plantinga's definition might be revised to say that what the fideist objects to is not so much " reason " per se — it seems excessive to call Blaise Pascal anti-rational — but evidentialism: the notion that no belief should be held unless it is supported by evidence.
Roughly, in Plantinga's theory of knowledge, warrant is that property of true beliefs that makes them knowledge.
Plantinga's answer to this is that the objection simply assumes that the criteria for " proper basicality " propounded by Classical Foundationalism ( self-evidence, incorrigibility, and sense-perception ) are the only possible criteria for properly basic beliefs.
Plantinga's and God
*" The Dawkins Confusion ", Plantinga's review of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion from Books and Culture magazine
Plantinga's and even
( A critical examination of Alvin Plantinga's provocative claim that Christian beliefs can be justified even without any evidence for them.
Plantinga's and with
Philosopher and Roman Catholic priest Ernan McMullin also disagrees with Plantinga's call for a theistic science, stating that it should not be considered to be science at all, and suggesting that Plantinga seriously understates the evidential support for evolution.
Plantinga's and free
* Plantinga's free will defense
* Plantinga's free will defense
Plantinga's and evil
Plantinga's defense has received wide acceptance among contemporary philosophers when addressing moral evil.
Plantinga's and .
Plantinga's father was a first generation immigrant, born in the Netherlands.
At the end of 11th grade, Plantinga's father urged Plantinga to skip his last year of high school and immediately enroll in college.
* Beilby, James, Epistemology as Theology: An Evaluation of Alvin Plantinga's Religious Epistemology.
Essays on Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism.
* Kvanvig, Jonathan ( ed ), Warrant in Contemporary Epistemology: Essays in Honor of Plantinga's Theory of Knowledge.
* Sennett, James, Modality, Probability, and Rationality: A Critical Examination of Alvin Plantinga's Philosophy.
* Warrant: The Current Debate Plantinga's Gifford Lecture, and volume 1 of his trilogy on warrant.
* Warrant and Proper Function Plantinga's Gifford Lecture, and volume 2 of the warrant trilogy.
( A critical assessment of Plantinga's response to the " Great Pumpkin Objection.
According to David Kahan of the University of Glasgow, in order to understand how beliefs are warranted, a justification must be found in the context of supernatural theism, as in Plantinga's epistemology.
argument and truncated
Compare this to a Taylor series for a scalar function of a scalar argument, truncated to first order:
argument and form
* Musical argument, a concept in the theory of musical form
An argument of this form is invalid, i. e., the conclusion can be false even when statements 1 and 2 are true.
One way to demonstrate the invalidity of this argument form is with a counterexample with true premises but an obviously false conclusion.
In its most general form, the argument from moral normativity is:
A modern form of this argument is given by Sir Roger Penrose.
Max Deutschbein is noted as the first person to present the argument in academic form.
In the complex case, one can also check that the bilinear form is linear over i in one argument, and conjugate linear in the other.
In his book, Cities and Economic Development, Paul Bairoch takes up this position in his argument that agricultural activity appears necessary before true cities can form.
This projection, according to the argument, is manifested in the form of attribution of undesirable characteristics of the self to the conspirators.
Thomas Aquinas ( c. 1225 – 1274 ), a theologian in Medieval Europe, adapted the argument he found in his reading of Aristotle and Avicenna to form one of the most influential versions of the cosmological argument.
In light of the Big Bang theory, a stylized version of argument has emerged ( sometimes called the Kalam cosmological argument, the following form of which was created by Al-Gazali and then strongly supported by William Lane Craig ):
It is a form of argument from universal causation.
" This form of the argument is far more difficult to separate from a purely first cause argument than is the example of the house's maintenance above, because here the First Cause is insufficient without the candle's or vessel's continued existence.
Based on this argument, the privileged frame, wherein the laws of physics take on the simplest form, is a stationary frame in which no fictitious forces need to be invoked.
In classical logic disjunctive syllogism ( historically known as modus tollendo ponens ) is a valid argument form which is a syllogism having a disjunctive statement for one of its premises.
Stevenson has identified persuasive definition as a form of stipulative definition which purports to describe the " true " or " commonly accepted " meaning of a term, while in reality stipulating an altered use, perhaps as an argument for some specific view.
Disjunction introduction or addition is a simple valid argument form, an immediate inference and a rule of inference of propositional logic.
In propositional logic, disjunction elimination ( sometimes named proof by cases or case analysis ), is the valid argument form and rule of inference that allows one to eliminate a disjunctive statement from a logical proof.
Around 4 July, Poisson declared Galois ' work " incomprehensible ", declaring that " argument is neither sufficiently clear nor sufficiently developed to allow us to judge its rigor "; however, the rejection report ends on an encouraging note: " We would then suggest that the author should publish the whole of his work in order to form a definitive opinion.
While the standard argument for utilizing a modern text supports distillation of information into a form relevant to modern society, perennialists argue that many of the historical debates and the development of ideas presented by the great books are relevant to any society, at any time, and thus that the suitability of the great books for instructional use is unaffected by their age.
Rather the form of the argument is generalized to considering configurations, which are connected subgraphs of G with the degree of each vertex ( in G ) specified.
The argument is that these symbiotic organisms, being unable to survive apart from each other and their climate and local conditions, form an organism in their own right, under a wider conception of the term organism than is conventionally used.
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