Committing High Reason
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Committing High Reason
A Defense Against Hume's Objection to the Cosmological Argument
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Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro
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Episode 13
Hume claimed the fact we can conceive of something coming into existence without a cause shows it is possible. He's wrong not only about his conclusion but his premise as well.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43301996?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents (Note: Wolfson is incorrect about the argument from design not being used in Jewish philosophy as an independent proof to the existence of G-d. It certainly is.)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmological-argument/
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