The Argument from Wholes

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Faith and Philosophy 30 (2):138-158 (2013)
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All wholes are made by an intelligent agent; some wholes were not made by an embodied agent; so, some things made by an intelligent agent were not made by an embodied agent. Such was the basic argument for God’s existence defended by Udayana, the greatest of the Nyāya-Vaiśeika philosophers, in his Kiraṇāvalī. Our paper explicates this argument and highlights its merits.

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10.5840/faithphil201330211

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Sandra Menssen
University of St. Thomas, Minnesota
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