♦ Seven of Diamonds
the ontological and a priori family
Argument from Space and Time
Samuel Clarke
A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God
DemonstrativeConcludes that something exists.
- Argument form
- Modus ponens (chained: necessary existence of the attributes, then inherence in a necessary substance)
- Concludes to
- Necessary being (a necessarily existing substance in which immensity and eternity inhere)
- Premise ground
- Conceptual (to suppose immensity and eternity not to exist is to suppose them remaining)
- Modal strength
- Necessary
- What it licenses
- Period
- Eighteenth Century (1705)
- Tradition
- Rationalist (Newtonian)
Further reading
- Source text, public domain
A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of Goda-demonstration-of-the-b_clarke-samuel_1706.pdf - 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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