Cosmological Arguments

• Attempt to infer existence of God from observations about causation, change, motion, or related phenomena
  • Where did the Universe come from? What caused all of this?

Using the Principle of Sufficient Reason

• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's approach
• Basic structure:
  1. Everything contingent fact has an explanation (Principle of Sufficient Reason)
  2. There is a contingent fact $C$ that includes all other contingent facts
  3. Facts cannot explain themselves
  4. Therefore: there must be a necessary being

Argument Philosophy