The First Part of the Third Way

Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 17:142-160 (1968)
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IN the third way of St Thomas Aquinas, one easily discerns two parts. The first part of the argument moves from the observed existence of the possible to the concluded existence of the necessary. The second part moves from the caused-necessary to the self-necessary

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The Alleged Birthday Fallacy in Aquinas’s Third Way.Joseph Magee - 2017 - In Darci N. Hill (ed.), Reflections on Medieval and Renaissance Thought. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 166-74.
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