 | Frederick Charles Copleston - 1957 - 384 sider
...different from myself.'2 But this Being which is different from myself cannot be something less than God. There must be at least as much reality in the cause as in the effect. And it follows, therefore, that the being on which I depend must either be God or possess the idea... | |
 | Jacques Derrida - 1978 - 366 sider
...determining natural light through a series of principles and axioms (axiom of causality according to which there must be at least as much reality in the cause as in the effect; then, after this axiom permits the proof of the existence of God, the axioms that "the light of nature... | |
 | A. Shimony, Debra Nails - 1987 - 406 sider
...formed its framework. How else do we explain Descartes' uncritical use of principles like 'there is at least as much reality in the cause as in the effect' which he emphasized in his first argument for the existence of God? (7) Empiricism proved itself unable... | |
 | Diogenes Allen, Eric O. Springsted - 1992 - 324 sider
...cause less perfect than God. This cannot be, because, as I have just said, it is perfectly evident that there must be at least as much reality in the cause as in the effect; and thus since I am a thinking thing, and possess an idea of God within me, whatever in the end be... | |
 | Professor Harold Coward, Harold G. Coward, Toby Foshay, Jacques Derrida - 1992 - 356 sider
...would obligate it to recognize in the symptom the negative manifestation to God. Without saying that there must be at least as much "reality" in the cause as in the effect, and that the "existence" of God has no need of any proof other than the religious symptomatics, one... | |
 | René Descartes - 1997 - 436 sider
...cause less perfect than God. This cannot be, because, as I have just said, it is perfecdy evident that there must be at least as much reality in the cause as in the effect; and thus since I am a thinking thing, and possess an idea of God within me, whatever in the end be... | |
 | Hent de Vries - 1999 - 506 sider
...would obligate it to recognize in the symptom the negative manifestation of God. Without saying that there must be at least as much "reality" in the cause as in the effect [the classic premise of the so-called cosmological argument for the existence of God — HdV], and... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 388 sider
...different from myself.'2 But this Being which is different from myself cannot be something less than God. There must be at least as much reality in the cause as in the effect. And it follows, therefore, that the being on which I depend must either be God or possess the idea... | |
 | Jorge Secada - 2000 - 349 sider
...supposedly achieved by the first version . . . [I]t relies on the notion . . . that this principle [that there must be at least as much reality in the cause as in the effect] can be applied to the ... 'objective reality' ... of the idea of God: whatever caused me, it is claimed,... | |
 | Rene Descartes, Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, G. R. T. Ross - 2003 - 134 sider
...than God. This cannot he, hecause, as I have just said, it is perfectly evident tliat there must he at least as much reality in the cause as in the effect ; and thus since I am a thinking thing, and possess an idea of God within me, whatever in the end he... | |
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