Yet another new cosmological argument

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 80 (1):11-31 (2016)
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Abstract

I argue that the existence of a necessary concrete being can be derived from an exceedingly weak causal principle coupled with two contingent truths one of which falls out of very popular positions in contemporary analytic metaphysics. I then show that the argument resists a great many objections commonly lodged against natural theological arguments of the cosmological variety.

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Christopher Gregory Weaver
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