The philosophers of the kalam tradition based their arguments for God's existence on which of the following premises?From nothing nothing comes.Actual infinites are impossible.

Anselm's 'fool' represents an athiest in whom God exists in the understanding but who does not believe that God also exists in reality.True

The idea of cold is materially false ifit represents a non-thing as a thing.

Scotus assumes that if something is contingent (i.e., it can come into existence), then there must have been a time when it didn't exist.What, according to Scotus, follows from this?

That no contingent thing could always exist.

From which of the following premises does Descartes conclude that God must exist in order to explain his (Descartes') own existence?

I do not have the power to create myself.

I do not have the power to conserve myself in being.

Match the following questions and answers.

QuestionSelected Match

What is an innate idea?One that originates in the mind.

What is an adventitious idea?One that arises from things outside the mind.

What is a fictitious idea?One constructed at will or by the imagination

What are ideas?Thoughts -- volitions or emotions or judgements.

Which of the following premises does Aquinas rely on in the argument from design?

That where there is design, there must be an intelligent designer.

That where there is regularity and order, there must be design.

Which of the following does Descartes think is true?

That the idea of God has moreintentional orobjective reality than the idea of any other thing.

That the idea of God has infiniteintentional orobjective reality.

Descartes establishes in the Third Meditation that all his clear and distinct ideas are true.

False

From the fact that the idea of God has an infinite degree ofintentional orobjective reality, Descartes infers

Only God could have caused such an idea to occur to us.