PHIL1090 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Noema, Empirical Evidence
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1: my existence must have a cause, the cause must be either, myself, my always having existed, my parents, something less perfect than god, god, not i. if i had created myself i would have made myself perfect, not ii. The same principle of experience which gives us a certain degree of assurance in the testimony of witnesses gives us also a degree o assurance against the fact facts acquired(cid:224)induction(cid:224)laws and theories(cid:224)deduction(cid:224) predictions and explanations religion based on testimony of those who witness those miracles throws the would be believer into an intellectual tug of war want to believe the testimony because that person has never lied in the past but this is inductive reasoning if you base your belief in miracles on inductive reasoning you must apply inductive reasoning to other aspects of the world, like the fact that no one has ever risen from the dead in the past.
