♣ Two of Clubs
the moral, experiential and pragmatic family
Argument from the Law Written in the Heart
St Paul
The Epistle to the Romans (Romans 2:14–15)
DemonstrativeConcludes that something exists.
- Argument form
- Enthymeme (scriptural seed; law in the heart to a lawgiver)
- Concludes to
- Intelligent agent (implicit: a lawgiver whose law is written in the heart; the seed text states no conclusion)
- Premise ground
- Empirical (Gentiles without the Law do by nature what the Law contains; scriptural seed)
- Modal strength
- Actual (implicit; the seed states no conclusion)
- What it licenses
- Period
- Scriptural (c. AD 57)
- Tradition
- Scriptural (Pauline)
Further reading
- Source text, public domain
The Epistle to the Romans
This formulation is ours, composed from the primary source and compressed to fit the card; the argument admits of other statements. Objections have been made to every argument in the deck; where one is linked above, it is chosen by us, not written by us.
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