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#analogy
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A door-maker reads Hume’s Dialogues: the design argument from the workshop
I make carved cedar doors and ceilings in the Andalusian style. I have been reading Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion in a French translation, because people kept telling me the design argument is about things like what I make. The argument says:…
Started by Hicham Ouazzani5 replies250 views -
Hume’s Dialogues had answered the watchmaker before Paley set it ticking
Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion were published in 1779, three years after his death, which is a fair measure of how risky he thought they were. William Paley's Natural Theology, with its famous watch found on a heath, appeared in 1802. My…
Started by Alistair Gow6 replies216 views -
Analogy, negation, or “without asking how”: how can finite words say anything true of God?
I teach metaphysics at a seminary, and every year a student asks the question that underlies everything else: when we say "God is good" or "God knows", what do the words mean? If they mean what they mean of us, God becomes…
Started by Fr. Ikechukwu Anyanwu4 replies148 views -
Qiyās, kal va-chomer and legal analogy: defeasible reasoning with centuries of rules
I spent thirty-one years on the bench in Punjab. The reasoning I used most was neither deduction nor statistics. It was analogy: this case resembles that one in the respect that matters, so it should be decided the same way. Islamic jurisprudence…
Started by Khalid Mahmood Awan5 replies275 views