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

In this cosmological argument are assembled so many sophistical propositions that speculative reason seems to have exerted in it all her dialectical skill to produce a transcendental illusion of the most extreme character.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

Upon this perfectly natural—but not on that account reliable—inference does the cosmological argument rest.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

I mentioned above that this cosmological argument contains a perfect nest of dialectical assumptions, which transcendental criticism does not find it difficult to expose and to dissipate.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

The cosmological argument contends that if anything exists, there must also exist an absolutely necessary being.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

The cosmological argument, or that one which proceeds after the posteriori fashion, from the present existence of the world as an effect, to the necessary existence of some ultimate and eternal first cause.

From In His Image by Bryan, William Jennings