cosmological argument

American  

noun

Philosophy.

1. an argument for the existence of God, asserting that the contingency of each entity, and of the universe composed wholly of such entities, demands the admission of an adequate external cause, which is God.

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cosmological argument British  

noun

1. philosophy one of the arguments that purport to prove the existence of God from empirical facts about the universe, esp the argument to the existence of a first cause Compare ontological argument teleological argument

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Example Sentences

This reasoning came to be known as the cosmological argument, and many philosophers elaborated on it.

From Scientific American

His critique of the cosmological argument confuses an implication with a presupposition, while his critique of the ontological argument makes an illegitimate move from distaste for a conclusion to its invalidity.

From Salon

To see why, let’s dig deeper into the cosmological argument, which, I claim, can be formulated in a way that refutes the no-arguments argument.

From Salon

The idea of a cosmological argument is to move from certain known effects to God as their cause.

From Salon

The world that the cosmological argument is trying to explain must not be everything but everything that needs an explanation.

From Salon