arguments
Across
- 3. Being that cannot not exist and is independent of anything else
- 5. Philosopher who argued God’s necessary existence is logically possible
- 6. Proposed natural selection as a counter-argument to design arguments
- 8. Philosopher who argued existence is a predicate of God and part of His perfection
- 10. Philosopher who proposed the ontological argument that God is the greatest conceivable being
- 12. Property that adds something to the concept of a being
- 18. Philosopher who proposed five ways to demonstrate God’s existence
- 23. Sequence with no first cause, relevant in cosmological arguments
- 24. Aquinas’ third way, argument from contingent and necessary beings
- 25. Philosopher who criticized the design argument and causation arguments
- 26. Perfect island analogy used by Gaunilo against Anselm
- 27. Being that depends on something else for its existence
- 28. Philosopher known for the watch analogy in the teleological argument
- 29. Knowledge independent of experience, used in ontological arguments
- 30. Knowledge derived from experience, used in cosmological and design arguments
- 32. Analogy used by Paley to illustrate complexity implies a designer
- 33. Philosopher who supports the anthropic argument for God’s existence
Down
- 1. Cosmological argument revived by philosophers like John Locke
- 2. Argument that aesthetic qualities in the universe suggest intention
- 4. Aquinas’ first way, something that causes motion without being moved
- 7. Aquinas’ second way, first efficient cause of everything
- 8. Argument that the order and purpose in the universe implies an intelligent designer
- 9. Final purpose or end in nature, part of Aquinas’ teleological reasoning
- 11. Philosopher known for the principle of sufficient reason and contingency arguments
- 13. Philosopher who debated Russell, defending cosmological arguments
- 14. Scientist who argued evolution removes the need for a designer
- 15. Critic of Anselm who used the perfect island analogy
- 16. Philosopher who defended a version of Anselm's ontological argument using necessary existence
- 17. Argument that the universe appears fine-tuned for human life
- 19. Philosopher whose work influenced Anselm’s ontological argument
- 20. Observation that nature follows specific laws, part of Aquinas’ design argument
- 21. Example used to discuss existence adding to the concept, in Kantian critique
- 22. Philosopher who argued existence is not a predicate and criticized ontological arguments
- 31. Philosopher who argued the universe may be a brute fact with no cause