The logic of essentially ordered causes

DOI10.1305/NDJFL/1093894361MaRDI QIDQ2534145zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. G. Wengert

Publication date 1971

Published in Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1305/ndjfl/1093894361

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05)

Review text

The medieval proof for the existence of God which relies on the notion of essentially ordered causes is examined. The question of regress to infinity -- with extensive use of \textit{Patterson Brown}'s account in ``Infinite causal regression [Philos. Rev. 75, No. 4, 510--525 (1966; \url{doi:10.2307/2183226})] -- is given an explication in terms of the formal theory of relations. The ancestral relation plays a major role in this analysis. Formal results lead to suggested interpretations of medieval notions such as `perfection' and `cause'.

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