SAINT LEO PHI110 RS Module 3 Content QUIZ 2

SAINT LEO PHI110 RS Module 3 Content QUIZ 2

1. Question : Gaunilo uses the perfect island argument to show that:

Student Answer: God does not exist.

God exists.

Anselm is implicitly committed to atheism.

Anselm’s ontological argument is absurd.

Points Received: 0 of 5

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Question 2. Question : Which of the following is most accurate regarding Gaunilo’s argument for the existence of a perfect island?

Student Answer: Its conclusion is trivially true.

It uses the same basic reasoning as Anselm’s ontological argument.

It establishes the existence of God on the basis of the beauty and order exhibited in the natural world.

It establishes that God’s body is physical.

Points Received: 5 of 5

Comments:

Question 3. Question : Some philosophers have held that the Principle of Sufficient Reason is (or can be) known intuitively to be true. Rowe questions this reasoning because:

Student Answer: according to Rowe, there are no statements at all that can be known intuitively to be true.

though there are some statements that can be known intuitively to be true, it is doubtful that many of us, if any, know intuitively that the Principle of Sufficient Reason is true.

there are clear examples of other metaphysical statements, known intuitively to be true, that contradict the Principle of Sufficient Reason.

although metaphysical statements can be known intuitively to be true, the Principle of Sufficient Reason is not a metaphysical statement.

Points Received: 5 of 5

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Question 4. Question : In order to motivate the first premise of Clarke’s cosmological argument, Rowe introduces a distinction made by Anselm regarding three classes of possible beings. Which of the following is NOT one of Anselm’s three cases as characterized by Rowe?

Student Answer: Being is explained by nothing.

Being is explained by God.

Being is explained by another.

Being is explained by itself.

Points Received: 0 of 5

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Question 5. Question : The argument for the existence of God as put forward by William Paley in our textbook is best characterized as a version of which of the following types of classical theistic arguments?

Student Answer: Ontological argument

Cosmological argument

Teleological argument

Moral argument

Points Received: 5 of 5

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Question 6. Question : According to Robin Collin’s fine-tuning argument for the existence of God: