♥ Five of Hearts
the teleological family
Argument from Providence
Ibn Rushd — Averroes, The Commentator
al-Kashf ʿan manāhij al-adilla fī ʿaqāʾid al-milla (Exposition of the Methods of Proof)
DemonstrativeConcludes that something exists.
- Argument form
- Disjunctive syllogism (chance or intending agent; not chance)
- Concludes to
- Intelligent agent (an agent ordering the world who intends the existence of man)
- Premise ground
- Metaphysical (an order extending to all parts without exception does not arise by chance)
- Modal strength
- Actual
- What it licenses
- Period
- Medieval (1179)
- Tradition
- Averroist
Further reading
- Source text, public domain
al-Kashf ʿan manāhij al-adilla fī ʿaqāʾid al-millaالكشف عن مناهج الأدلة في عقائد الملة.pdf - A scholarly account
Read an exposition of the argument - A principal objection
Read the objection in full
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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