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Whole and Part in Cosmological, Arguments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

R. G. Swinburne
Affiliation:
University of Hull.

Abstract

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Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1969

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References

1 Leibniz, G. W.On the Ultimate Origination of Things.Google Scholar

2 Hume, DavidDialogues concerning Natural Religion (ed.) Aiken, H. D., New York, 1948, pp. 59fGoogle Scholar. The same argument is put forward, among modern writers, by Paul Edwards. He writes that “if we have explained the individual members” of a series “there is nothing additional left to be explained”. (“The Cosmological Argument” in The Rationalist Annual 1959, pp. 6377. See p. 71).Google Scholar