Gaunilo or Gaunillon (fl. 11th century) was a Benedictine monk of Marmoutier Abbey in Tours, France. He is best known for his contemporary criticism of...
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Ontological argument (redirect from Ontological argument for the existence of God)
number of criticisms and objections have also been mounted. Its first critic was Gaunilo of Marmoutiers, a contemporary of Anselm's. Gaunilo, suggesting...
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Argument from free will (redirect from Paradox of free will)
called the paradox of free will or theological fatalism, contends that omniscience and free will are incompatible and that any conception of God that incorporates...
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Russell's teapot (category Criticism of religion)
the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making empirically unfalsifiable claims, as opposed to shifting the burden of disproof to others. Russell...
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Argument from nonbelief (category Arguments against the existence of God)
argument from nonbelief is a philosophical argument for the non-existence of God that asserts an inconsistency between God's existence and a world in which...
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Metaphysical naturalism (redirect from Philosophy of naturalism)
holds that there is nothing but natural elements, principles, and relations of the kind studied by the natural sciences. Methodological naturalism is a philosophical...
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Anukulchandra Chakravarty (category Founders of new religious movements)
founder of Satsang, in Deoghar. He was born in a Brahmin family. Anukulchandra Chakravarty was born in the Himaitpur village of Pabna district of East Bengal...
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of Hell is an ethical problem in the Abrahamic religions of Christianity and Islam, in which the existence of Hell (Jahannam) for the punishment of souls...
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Cosmological argument (redirect from Cosmological argument for the existence of God)
argument, in natural theology and the philosophy of religion, is an argument which asserts that the existence of God can be inferred from facts concerning causation...
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Pascal's wager (category Arguments for the existence of God)
belief in the existence of God. Pascal contends that a rational person should adopt a lifestyle consistent with the existence of God and actively strive...
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