Cumulative Argument, Sustaining Causes, and Miracles

Philosophia Christi 8 (2):219 - 226 (2006)
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This is a critique of J. H. Sobel’s ’Logic and Theism’, defending the use of cumulative arguments, and the coherence of theistic metaphysics

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