♠ Two of Spades
the cosmological family
The Argument from the Builder
The Epistle to the Hebrews (Hebrews 3:4)
AnalogicalConcludes what a known parallel entitles us to infer.
- Argument form
- Argument from analogy (house to builder; scriptural seed, enthymematic)
- Concludes to
- God as such (he that built all things is named God in the text)
- Premise ground
- Empirical (every house is built by someone; scriptural seed)
- Modal strength
- Actual
- What it licenses
- Period
- Scriptural (c. AD 60s)
- Tradition
- Scriptural (Pauline corpus)
Further reading
- Source text, public domain
The Epistle to the HebrewsGeneva Bible 1599 - IMPRESSO COLORIDO.pdf - A scholarly account
Read an exposition of the argument
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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